s sparkled so that I forgot how tired and hollow they
sometimes looked when she had been sitting up half the night over her
endless manuscript.

The morning of the day we had looked forward to--promised as good an
evening as we could wish. The Capitalist, whose courteous and bland
demeanor would never have suggested the thought that he was a robber and
an enemy of his race, who was to be trampled underfoot by the beneficent
regenerators of the social order as preliminary to the universal
reign of peace on earth and good-will to men, astonished us all with
a proposal to escort the three ladies and procure a carriage for their
conveyance. The Lady thanked him in a very cordial way, but said she
thought nothing of the walk. The Landlady looked disappointed at this
answer. For her part she was on her legs all day and should be glad
enough to ride, if so be he was going to have a carriage at any rate. It
would be a sight pleasanter than to trudge afoot, but she would n't have
him go to the expense on her account. Don't mention it, madam,--r--said
the Capitalist, in a generous glow of enthusiasm. As for the Young Girl,
she did not often get a chance for a drive, and liked the idea of it for
its own sake, as children do, and she insisted that the Lady should go
in the carriage with her. So it was settled that the Capitalist should
take the three ladies in a carriage, and the rest of us go on foot.

The evening behaved as it was bound to do on so momentous an occasion.
The Capitalist was dressed with almost suspicious nicety. We pedestrians
could not help waiting to see them off, and I thought he handed the
ladies into the carriage with the air of a French marquis.

I walked with Dr. Benjamin and That Boy, and we had to keep the little
imp on the trot a good deal of the way in order not to be too long
behind the carriage party. The Member of the Haouse walked with our
two dummies,--I beg their pardon, I mean the Register of Deeds and the
Salesman.

The Man of Letters, hypothetically so called, walked by himself, smoking
a short pipe which was very far from suggesting the spicy breezes that
blow soft from Ceylon's isle.

I suppose everybody who reads this paper has visited one or more
observatories, and of course knows all about them. But as it may
hereafter be translated into some foreign tongue and circulated among
barbarous, but rapidly improving people, people who have as yet no
astronomers among them, it may be well to