lief, and the liberality and courage with
which I had furnished the means and encountered the risks that were
necessary to restore them to their native land. The anticipation of this
human triumph could not but diffuse a general satisfaction in our own
tribune--even the common mariners, as they recalled the dangers through
which they had passed, feeling a consciousness of deserving, mingled
with that soothing sentiment which is ever the companion of a merited
reward. As the philosopher drew nearer to the time when it would be
necessary to speak of us, I threw a look of triumph at Lord Chatterino,
which, however, failed of its intended effect--the young peer continuing
to whisper to his noble companions with just is much self-importance and
coolness as if he had not been one of the rescued captives.

Dr. Reasono was justly celebrated, among his colleagues, for ingenuity
and eloquence. The excellent morals that he threw into every possible
opening of his subject, the beauty of the figures with which they were
illustrated, and the masculine tendencies of his argument, gave general
delight to the audience. The Journey of Trial was made to appear, what
it had been intended to be by the fathers and sages of the Leaphigh
institutions, a probation replete with admonitions and instruction. The
aged and experienced, who had grown callous by time, could not conceal
their exultation; the mature and suffering looked grave and full of
meditation; while the young and sanguine fairly trembled, and for
once, doubted. But, as the philosopher led his party from precipice to
precipice in safety, as rocks were scaled and seductive valleys avoided,
a common feeling of security began to extend itself among the audience;
and we all followed him in his last experiment among the ice, with that
sort of blind confidence which the soldier comes, in time, to entertain
in the orders of a tried and victorious general.

The Doctor was graphic in his account of the manner in which he and his
wards plunged among these new trials. The lovely Chatterissa (for all
his travelling companions were present) bent aside her head and blushed,
as the philosopher alluded to the manner in which the pure flame that
glowed in her gentle bosom resisted the chill influence of that
cold region; and when he recited an ardent declaration that my lord
Chatterino had made on the centre of a floe, and the kind and amorous
answer of his mistress, I thought the applause of the o