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The Adventures Of Don Pasquale.

THE ADVENTURES OF DON PASQUALE .

BY THE AU'l'nOE OF THE " OLD , OLD STORY . " CHAPTEB VII . " To keep an adjunct to remembor thee Were to import forgetfulnesa in me . " —SHAKESPEARE ( SONNETS )

VER 1 few of us all ever realize , it appears to me , how much depends often on the golden moments we so laboriously misuse , so deplorably waste in idle dreams which bring no return—in fantastic follies which end only in tears . Day by day , and hour by hour , as we move on amid the great crowd which throngs the Vanity Fair of Life , which buys at its marts , re-echoes its songs , and exults in its fascinations , we too often forget that Time—winged Time—carries away with it our hopes and fears , our cares and imaginingsthe vows of the lover and the sighs of the forlornnever again to

, , return to us here . And youth also seldom is able , as the French say , to " envisage !" either what concerns its present real happiness or its future safe abiding ; for youth looks at everything alone iu those colours , so gay and glittering , which unstable fancy or inexperienced anticipation present to its startled and enraptured gaze . Youth recks little of the morrow , and too often forgets that for its prodigal use of the things which are it will one day have a reckoning to pay . Accordingly it takes all on credit and on

trust , not necessarily wrong in themselves , but overlooks the possibility that its acceptances for the future may not be taken up , and that its over-due bills will not necessarily be renewed . Youth too often " does " a " little bill , " which is too often " protested" when it comes to " maturity ; " or , worse than this , its thin piece of paper is marked " no orders , " " no assets , " and the bank on which it has been drawn has dissolved partnership , or is " non est , " or is in the Bankruptcy Court .

But , " revenons a , nos moutons , " after this moral and philosophical , and yet practical disquisition . Paesiello and Don Balthazar , finding the fates apparently propitious , and no impediment in the way , endeavoured to make " hay " while the " sun " shone upon them . There are those who take , as I hold , far too stern and lugubrious a view of life . They seem to think that laughter is all but wrong , geniality objectionable , and earthly society a deadly snare . With such I cannot agree ; for such views I have , for one , not

the slightest sympathy . Such is the teaching which has filled convents and nunneries , which would antagonise every emotion of humanity . I belong to that school which believes that in the good Providence of God " all things are lawful" for us here ( even though some are " not expedient" ou personal grounds ) which are used with moderation and enjoyed with carefulness . So that I never can see why youth is to be blamed or scolded , or "ballyragged , " ( most forcible word !) because youth likes to say " carpe

diem , '' and make the most of present happiness and actual enjoyment . There is a goodly " mean" in all things , and while , on the one hand , we should avoid that "jeremiading" school which condemns everything , often on no principle at all , we should seek to learn that hi gher and better philosophy on the other , which , looking upon the present and the passing , identifies its best hopes and truest happiness with what is alike unchanging and eternal . But I have but exchanged Scylla for Charybdis , and have fallen from a moral disquisition into a neat sermonette 1

Eva and Anna were neither too self-absorbed ( what a fine , modern phrase !) or too hard-hearted , and therefore with them our hero and his friend soon made way—in fact , they became fast friends ! Stanelli and Bechuer were not uninterested or unobservant witnesses of all this pleasant little comedy , but felt that , despite some not unnatural anxiety for their own private affairs , their- best chance was to trust to the loyalty of their fair and fascinating friends . What a pity it is that in the concerns of this world ,

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Monthly Masonic Summary. Article 1
THE ORIGIN AND REFERENCE OF THE HERMESIAN SPURIOUS FREEMASONRY. Article 2
1877 AND 1878. Article 4
ST. ANDREW'S ROYAL ARCH CHAPTER, BOSTON (U.S.A.) Article 5
THE ADVENTURES OF DON PASQUALE. Article 8
THE LATE PRINCE CONSORT. Article 10
NOT KNOWING. Article 14
THE TRUE HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY IN ENGLAND. Article 15
FORGIVE AND FORGET. Article 18
THE WORK OF NATURE IN THE MONTHS. Article 19
A CHAPTER ON OAKS. Article 25
DIETETICS.* Article 27
WINTER. Article 30
AMABEL VAUGHAN. Article 31
TIME'S FLIGHT. Article 34
A DAY'S PLEASURE. Article 35
JIMMY JACKSON AN' HIS BAD WIFE. Article 38
LOST AND SAVED ; OR NELLIE POWERS THE MISSIONARY'S DAUGHTER. Article 40
NOTES ON LITERATURE, SCIENCE AND ART. Article 46
SHAKSPEARE: SONNETS, XXX. Article 48
IDEM LATINE REDDITUM. Article 48
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The Adventures Of Don Pasquale.

THE ADVENTURES OF DON PASQUALE .

BY THE AU'l'nOE OF THE " OLD , OLD STORY . " CHAPTEB VII . " To keep an adjunct to remembor thee Were to import forgetfulnesa in me . " —SHAKESPEARE ( SONNETS )

VER 1 few of us all ever realize , it appears to me , how much depends often on the golden moments we so laboriously misuse , so deplorably waste in idle dreams which bring no return—in fantastic follies which end only in tears . Day by day , and hour by hour , as we move on amid the great crowd which throngs the Vanity Fair of Life , which buys at its marts , re-echoes its songs , and exults in its fascinations , we too often forget that Time—winged Time—carries away with it our hopes and fears , our cares and imaginingsthe vows of the lover and the sighs of the forlornnever again to

, , return to us here . And youth also seldom is able , as the French say , to " envisage !" either what concerns its present real happiness or its future safe abiding ; for youth looks at everything alone iu those colours , so gay and glittering , which unstable fancy or inexperienced anticipation present to its startled and enraptured gaze . Youth recks little of the morrow , and too often forgets that for its prodigal use of the things which are it will one day have a reckoning to pay . Accordingly it takes all on credit and on

trust , not necessarily wrong in themselves , but overlooks the possibility that its acceptances for the future may not be taken up , and that its over-due bills will not necessarily be renewed . Youth too often " does " a " little bill , " which is too often " protested" when it comes to " maturity ; " or , worse than this , its thin piece of paper is marked " no orders , " " no assets , " and the bank on which it has been drawn has dissolved partnership , or is " non est , " or is in the Bankruptcy Court .

But , " revenons a , nos moutons , " after this moral and philosophical , and yet practical disquisition . Paesiello and Don Balthazar , finding the fates apparently propitious , and no impediment in the way , endeavoured to make " hay " while the " sun " shone upon them . There are those who take , as I hold , far too stern and lugubrious a view of life . They seem to think that laughter is all but wrong , geniality objectionable , and earthly society a deadly snare . With such I cannot agree ; for such views I have , for one , not

the slightest sympathy . Such is the teaching which has filled convents and nunneries , which would antagonise every emotion of humanity . I belong to that school which believes that in the good Providence of God " all things are lawful" for us here ( even though some are " not expedient" ou personal grounds ) which are used with moderation and enjoyed with carefulness . So that I never can see why youth is to be blamed or scolded , or "ballyragged , " ( most forcible word !) because youth likes to say " carpe

diem , '' and make the most of present happiness and actual enjoyment . There is a goodly " mean" in all things , and while , on the one hand , we should avoid that "jeremiading" school which condemns everything , often on no principle at all , we should seek to learn that hi gher and better philosophy on the other , which , looking upon the present and the passing , identifies its best hopes and truest happiness with what is alike unchanging and eternal . But I have but exchanged Scylla for Charybdis , and have fallen from a moral disquisition into a neat sermonette 1

Eva and Anna were neither too self-absorbed ( what a fine , modern phrase !) or too hard-hearted , and therefore with them our hero and his friend soon made way—in fact , they became fast friends ! Stanelli and Bechuer were not uninterested or unobservant witnesses of all this pleasant little comedy , but felt that , despite some not unnatural anxiety for their own private affairs , their- best chance was to trust to the loyalty of their fair and fascinating friends . What a pity it is that in the concerns of this world ,

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