THE VISIT OF SILVERSMITH, AHD 
ITS RESULTS. 
neither she nor any one else knows what. There they sit 
motionless, not a word or gesture from either. This may 
last for a long time, just as the strength of the dispute 
may happen to have been. Probably, the lady will get up 
first approach the fire-place, saying it is cold. The 
gentleman withdraws the foot, next to her, which was 
struck up over the grate, bringing it down to the heart- 
rug. His companion sits down on the rug, somewhat 
in a similar manner as has already, in a previous chap- 
ter, been described as after the custom of the coolie, 
•nly, that the gentleman’s leg forms a very comfortable 
and natural arm to the chair she has adopted. She leans 
her own arm on this arm, and again says, it is cold, but 
there is no response; it is quite evident that the heart of 
that horrid man is cold also ! She now remarks that 
the rain has ceased, and what a beautiful sunset it is. 
The ‘‘ some words ” had been occasioned by a refusal 
on the part of the gentleman to allow his carriage and 
horses to be taken out, to drive the lady to a tea drink- 
ing, on account of the rain. The carriage was new, and 
would get spoilt, and the horses, very valuable and 
expensive animals, would catch cold. Still no reply ;; 
but he becomes somewhat restless. She gazes up into 
his face gradually the two faces approach each other, 
until — he rises up, and rings the bell. ‘ ‘ J ohn, tell 
Thomas to put to the horses, and bring the carriage 
round directly, and — my dear, run up stairs, and get 
ready.” The dear needs no further instructions, for 
she is dressed, and downstairs, long before the 
carriage drives up. If the gentleman had resolutely 
continued obstinate to this successful appeal of the 
lady, she had still a final and unfailing resource, which 
he could not have resisted: she would have laid her face 
down on the soft arm, and wept. Of course he would 
have tenderly raised the face, of course he would have 
risen up, and rung the bell, and told John to tell 
Thomas, but the lady was not reduced to this final 
necessity, fcr she was wise, and wisely deferred it, until 
all other attempts had failed. This little incident in 
domestic lifemay here be considered somewh at out of 
place, and a digression from the routine of our tale, but 
it is given in order to show that human nature, 
woman’s nature, and man’s also, is very much the same 
everywhere, only, the lady’s and gentleman’s were on 
a more refined and polished scale than the tattan’s, 
and his wife. The quarrels and disputes of the former, 
owing to the privacy of English home life, are seldom 
on never known to the public. If they were, if the 
public had known what had taken place in that room, 
as they knew what had taken place between the 
latter, they would probably have just been as much 
