my being connected with your family by the nearest and tenderest 33 ties 34 in the world. 35 Sterl. Why, did not you tell me, not a moment ago, it was absolutely impossible for you to marry my daughter? Sir John. True: but you have another daughter, Sir— Sterl. Well! 37 Sir John. Who has obtained the most absolute 36 dominion 3 over my heart. I have already declared my passion to her ; nay, Miss Sterling herself is also apprised 38 of it, and if you will but give a sanction 39 to my present addresses,0 the uncommon merit of Miss Sterling will, no doubt, recommend her to a person of equal, if not superior rank to myself, and our families may still be allied by my union with Miss Fanny. Sterl. Mighty fine, truly 13! Why, what the plague do you make of us, Sir John? Do you come to market" for my daughters, like servants at a statute-fair? 45 Do you 46 42 43 think that I will suffer you, or any man in the world, to come into my house like the Grand Seignior, and throw the handkerchief first to one, and then to the other, just as he pleases? Do you think I drive 47 a kind of African slavetrade 18 with them? and 48 Sir John. A moment's patience, Sir! Nothing but the excess 49 of my passion for Miss Fanny should have induced 50 me to take any step" that had the least appearance of disrespect 52 to any part of your family; and even now I am desirous to atone for my transgression " by making the most adequate 55 compensation 56 that lies in my power. 54 Sterl. Compensation? What compensation can you possibly 57 make in such a case as this, Sir John? 58 Sir John. Come, come, Mr. Sterling; I know you to be a man of sense, and a man of business, a man of the world. I will deal 59 frankly 60 with you; and you shall see that I do not desire a change of measures 6 for my own gratification,62 without endeavouring to make it advantageous to you. Sterl. What advantage can your inconstancy be to me, Sir John. 63 37 die Herrschaft; 42 ungewöhnlich; vortrefflich; das Taschentuch; führen; 34 das Band; 35 zärtlich; heirathen; unbeschränkt ; 39 die Genehmigung; 40 die Bewerbung; 41 43 wahrhaftig; 44 46 der Gesinde-Markt; hanteln; 45 47 48 der Sclavenhandel; 49 das Uebermaß; 50 veranlassen; 51 der Schritt; 52 die Unchrerbietigkeit; 53 büßen; 54 die Uebertretung; 55 angemessen; 56 der Ersat; 57 möglicherweise ; 58 der Fall; 59 sich benehmen, betragen; 60 offenherzig, frei; 61 das Verhältniß; 62 die Befriedigung; 63 vortheilhaft; 64 die Unbeständigkeit; 65 Sir John. I will tell you, Sir. You know that, by the articles at present subsisting between us, on the day of my marriage with Miss Sterling you agree to pay down 67 the gross sum of eighty thousand pounds. Sterl. Well! Sir John. Now, if you will but consent to my waving that marriage— 68 Sterl. I agree to your waving that marriage! Impossible, Sir John. 69 Sir John. I hope not, Sir; as, on my part, I will agree to wave my right to thirty thousand pounds of the fortune 70 I was to receive with her. Sterl. Thirty thousand, do you say? Sir John. Yes, Sir; and accept of Miss Fanny, with fifty thousand instead of fourscore." Sterl. Fifty thousand Sir John. Instead of fourscore. Sterl. Why, why, there may be something in that.Let me see; Fanny with fifty thousand instead of Betsy with fourscore. But how can this be, Sir John? For you know I am to pay this money into the hands of my Lord Ogleby; who, I believe, betwixt 72 you and me, Sir John, is not overstocked with ready money" at present; and threescore thousand of it you know, are to go to pay off 75 the present incumbrances 76 on the estate, Sir John. 80 Sir John. That objection" is easily obviated." Ten of the twenty thousand, which would remain as a surplus of the fourscore, after paying off the mortgage, was intended by his lordship for my use, that we might set off with some little eclat 81 on our marriage; and the other ten for his own. Ten thousand pounds therefore I shall be able to pay you immediately; and for the remaining twenty thousand you shall have a mortgage on that part of the estate which is to be made over to me, with whatever security you shall require for the regular payment of the interest, till the principal 85 is duly discharged. 86 82 Sterl. Why, to do you justice, Sir John, there is some 70 Das 67 baar bezahlen ; bestehen; 68 aufgeben; 69 meinerseits ; achtzig; unter uns; 73 überfüllt, überreich ; das baare Geld; 72 74 65 die Bedingung ; 66 Vermögen; 71 75 abzahlen; 76 die Schuld; 77 die Entgegenseßung ; 78 vorbeugen; 79 der Ueberschuß ; 80 die Hypothek; 81 das Aufsehen; 82 was auch immer; 83 verlangen, fordern ; 85 Zinsen; das Kapital; 86 87 entrichtet, bezahlt; richtig; 88 Recht widerfahren lassen ; 84 P 89 thing fair and open in your proposal; and since I find you do not mean to put an affront upon the family— Sir John. Nothing was ever farther from my thoughts, Mr. Sterling. And after all, the whole affair 90 is nothing extraordinary; such things happen every day; and as the world had only heard generally" of a treaty between the families, when this marriage takes place, nobody will be the wiser, if we have but discretion 92 enough to keep our own counsel.93 Sterl. True, true; and since you only transfer 94 from one girl to the other, it is no more than transferring so much stock, you know. Sir John. The very thing. Sterl. Odso! I had quite forgot. We are reckoning without our host 96 here. There is another difficulty 97 98 Sir John. You alarm me. What can that be? Sterl. I cannot stir 99 a step in this business without consulting 100 my sister Heidelberg. The family has very great expectations from her, and we must not give her any offence. Sir John. But if you come into this measure, surely she will be so kind as to consent Sterl. I do not know that. Betsy is her darling; 101 and I cannot tell how far she 102 may resent any slight that seems to be offered to her favourite niece. However, I will do the best I can for you. You shall go and break 103 the matter to her first, and by the time that I may suppose 104 that your rhetoric 105 has prevailed 106 on her to listen to reason,' step in to reinforce 108 your arguments.109 Sir John. I will fly to her immediately: you promise me your assistance? 107 I will Sir John. Ten thousand thanks for it! and now success attend me! Sterl. Harkee, Sir John! - Not a word of the thirty thousand to my sister, Sir John. Sir John. Ó, I am dumb,110 I am dumb, Sir. 89 ehrlich, aufrichtig; 90 die Angelegenheit; 91 im Allgemeinen; übertragen, übergehen; fein; 93 94 99 95 die Actie; geheim halten; Schwierigkeit; 98 ängstigen; thun; 100 um Rath fragen; Vernachlässigung; 103 mittheilen; 104 107 fich belehren lassen ; 108 verstärken; vermuthen; 109 105 die Redekunst; 106 102 Die vermocht; stumm; 111 ohne Zweifel; 110 Beweis; Sterl. But, Sir John, one thing more. My lord must know nothing of this stroke 12 of friendship between us. Sir John. Not for the world. Let me alone! let me alone! Sterl. And when every thing is agreed, we must give each other a bond 13 to be held fast to the bargain.' 114 Sir John. To be sure, a bond by all means! a bond, or whatever you please. Sterl. I should have thought of more conditions; he is in a humour 115 to give me everything. Why, what mere children are your fellows of quality;116 that cry for a plaything 117 one minute, and throw it by the next! as changeable as the weather and as uncertain as the stocks. Special 118 fellows to drive a bargain! 119 and yet they are to take care of the interest of the nation truly! Here does this whirligig 120 man of fashion offer to give up thirty thousand pounds in hard money,' 121 with as much indifference 122 as if it was a orange. 123 By this mortgage, I shall have hold of his Terra Firma: and if he wants more money, as he certainly will, let him have children by my daughter or no, I shall have his whole estate in a net 12 for the benefit 125 of my family. Well; thus it is, that the children of citizens, 126 who have acquired fortunes, prove persons of fashion; and thus it is, that persons of fashion, who have ruined 129 their fortunes, reduce the next generation 130 to cits.-Clandestine Marriage. china 116 127 117 128 118 122 die 112 der Streich; 113 Sicherheit geben; 114 der Handel, das Uebereinkommen; 115 die Laune; vornehme Burschen; das Spielzeug; vorzüglich; 119 einen Handel schließen; 120 sich drehen wie der Wind, Wirbelwind; 121 Gold und Silber; Gleichgültigkeit; 123 die süße Pomeranze, Apfelfine; 124 das Neß; 125 der Vortheil; 126 der Bürger; 127 sich zeigen, werden; verschwenden; das Geschlecht, die Nachkommenschaft. erwerben; 128 129 130 XX. A DESCRIPTIVE PIECE. LIBERTY AND SLAVERY. 3 Disguise' thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery! still thou art a bitter draught; and though thousands in all ages have been made to drink of thee, thou art no less bitter on that account. It is thou, Liberty! thrice sweet and gracious 1 verkleiden, bemänteln; 2 die Sclaverei; 4 5 4 die Freiheit; 5 gnädig; 14 8 13 goddess, whom all in public or in private' worship, whose taste is grateful," and ever will be so, till nature herself shall change- -no tint of words can spot 12 thy snowy mantle, or chymic power turn thy sceptre 15 into ironwith thee to smile upon him as he eats his crust," the swain 17 is happier than his monarch, from whose court 18 thou art exiled. 19 Gracious Heaven! grant 20 me but health, thou great bestower 21 of it, and give me but this fair 22 goddess as my companion; 93 and shower down" thy mitres," if it seems good unto thy divine providence, 26 upon those heads which are aching 27 for them. 29 Pursuing these ideas,28 I sat down close to my table, and leaning my head upon my hand, I began to figure 30 to myself the miseries of confinement.31 I was in a right frame 32 for it, and so I gave full scope to my imagination.34 35 33 I was going to begin with the millions of my fellow-creatures 5 born to no inheritance 36 but 37 slavery; but finding, however 38 affecting 39 the picture was, that I could not bring it nearer me, and that the multitude of sad groups 41 in it did but 42 distract 43 me 40 I took a single captive," and having first shut him up in his dungeon," I then looked through the twilight 46 of his grated" door to take 48 his picture. I beheld" his body half wasted away 50 with long expectation and confinement, and felt what kind of sickness of the heart 5 it was which arises 52 from hope deferred. Upon looking nearer, I saw him pale and feverish : in thirty years 57 53 the western breeze 54 had not fanned 55 his blood-he had seen no sun, no moon, in all that time-nor had the voice of friend or kinsman 56 breathed " through his lattice. His children— But here my heart began to bleed-and I was forced to go on with another part of the portrait.50 6 7 12 8 13 9 14 15 öffentlich; allein, geheim; verehren; der Geschmack; 10 dankbar; 11 bie Farbe, der Ausdruck; beflecken; schneeigt; chemisch; das Scepter; 16 bie Krufte; 17 der Ackerknecht; 18 der Hof; 19 verbannen; 20 verleihen, gestatten, 21 28 der Gedanke; 29 ftüßen; schenken; der Verleiher; 22 hübsch; 23 die Gefährtin; 24 niederschütten, nieder, regnen; 25 die Bischofsmüße, Krone; 26 die Vorsehung ; 27 verlangen, lüften; 31 die Gefangenschaft ; vorstellen; gelegt sein; 33 freien Lauf lassen; 34 die Einbildung; 35 der Nebenmensch; 36 die Erbschaft, erben; 37 als, als nur; 38 wie auch; 39 rührend ; der Haufen; 41 die Gruppe; 42 Gefängniß; 46 das Zwielicht; 47 gezehrt; 51 die Gemüthskrankheit; Säuseln; 55 fächeln; 56 der Verwandte; 57 athmen; 58 das Gitter; 59 das Bildniß; nur; 43 verwirren; der Gefangene; machen, malen; erblicken; 49 50 ab 53 54 entsteht; fieberhaft; das sanfte Lüftchen, |