tands: the father is like the hurdygurdy, at once
dead and living. The mere form is a dead thing, but the music lives.
Pisistratus drops another small piece of silver on the ground, and turns
away.
God help and God bless thee, Savoyard! Thou hast done Pisistratus all
the good in the world. Thou hast corrected the hard wisdom of the young
gentleman in the velveteen jacket; Pisistratus is a better lad for
having stopped to listen to thee.
I regained the entrance to the churchyard, I looked back; there sat the
Savoyard still amidst men's graves, but under God's sky. He was still
looking at me wistfully; and when he caught my eye, he pressed his hand
to his heart and smiled. God help and God bless thee, young Savoyard!
PART V.
CHAPTER I.
In setting off the next morning, the Boots, whose heart I had won by an
extra sixpence for calling me betimes, good-naturedly informed me that I
might save a mile of the journey, and have a very pleasant walk into the
bargain, if I took the footpath through a gentleman's park, the lodge of
which I should see about seven miles from the town.
"And the grounds are showed too," said the Boots, "if so be you has a
mind to stay and see 'em. But don't you go to the gardener,--he'll want
half a crown; there's an old 'Oman at the lodge who will show you all
that's worth seeing--the walks and the big cascade--for a tizzy. You may
make use of my name," he added proudly,--"Bob, boots at the 'Lion.' She
be a haunt o' mine, and she minds them that come from me perticklerly."
Not doubting that the purest philanthropy actuated these counsels, I
thanked my shock-headed friend, and asked carelessly to whom the park
belonged.
"To Muster Trevanion, the great parliament man," answered the Boots.
"You has heard o' him, I guess, sir?"
I shook my head, surprised every hour more and more to find how very
little there was in it.
"They takes in the 'Moderate Man's Journal' at the 'Lamb:' and they say
in the tap there that he's one of the cleverest chaps in the House o'
Commons," continued the Boots, in a confidential whisper. "But we takes
in the 'People's Thunderbolt' at the 'Lion,' and we knows better
this Muster Trevanion: he is but a trimmer,--milk and water,--no
horator,--not the right sort; you understand?" Perfectly satisfied
that I understood nothing about it, I smiled, and said, "Oh, yes!" and
slipping on my knapsack, commenced my adventures, the Boots bawling
after me, "Mi
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