tobacco to smoke, and a good
band of music. I heard '_La Marseillaise_' played with a wonderful
spirit. It set me on fire. I began to feel for my musket and to think
of fighting."

"We don't want '_La Marseillaise_' here, Antony. We have our own
national hymns. The '_Star Spangled Banner_' can set my heart
thrilling and burning, without making me think of blood and murder. If
social reformers will talk to the '_Star Spangled Banner_,' and '_The
Red, White and Blue_,' they will do no harm, and perhaps they may even
do some good."

"However, father, most of the men I heard speak appeared to have a
great deal of information and much practical wisdom."

"They will need as much again to govern what they have."

"You are prejudiced against anything new, father."

"Perhaps I am, Antony. I am suspicious of new things, even of new
planets. I have read of several lately, but I cannot say I believe in
them. I find myself sticking to the old list I learned at school; it
began with Mercury, and ended with Georgium Sidus. I believe they have
given Georgium Sidus a new name; but I don't know him by it."

Antony--who rarely laughed--laughed heartily at his father's solid
conservatism; and then the conversation drifted to and fro about the
ordinary events of their daily life--the potting of plants, the
village taxes, the shoeing of horses, and so forth. And Yanna's calm,
serious face told Antony nothing of the suffering in her heart; nor
did she desire he should know it. Culture teaches the average woman to
suppress feeling; and Yanna had a great dislike to discuss matters so
closely personal to her. She was not ignorant either of Antony's love
for Rose, and his friendship with Harry had been hitherto without a
cloud; why, then, should her private affairs make trouble between
lovers and friends?

"At any rate," she thought, "circumstances alter cases; and Antony in
his relationship with Rose and Harry must be permitted to act without
any sense of obligation to my rights or wrongs."

Peter scarcely looked at the matter in the same temperate way; his
sense of the family tie was very strong, and he thought if one member
suffered injury all the other members ought to suffer with it. Yet he
comprehended Yanna's sensitiveness, her dislike for any discussion of
her feelings, her liberal admission that Harry, brought up in a
different sphere of life, and under social tenets of special
obsequiousness, could not be fairly measured by t