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"Its Precepts Are Eternal;" Or , The Practice Of A Freemason's Daughter.
" Test it , father , tost it , " said the young man , earnestly ; " let me go to Vienna , and on the spot institute inquiries , ancl ascertain the value of the securities we hold . The experiment shall be made at my own risk and cost exclusively . " " That proposal is worth considering , " said the elder
gentleman , musingly . " Define the terms I am to accept , and the terms I am to reject : entrust me with certain powers , and rely upon it I will not exceed them . " " Your project shall be submitted to the combined opinion of the house" was Mr . Heathfield ' s deliberate conclusion ;
, " but hark ye , Maurice , you are about to sojourn in a land where all secret societies are held in abomination , —that of the Freemasons among the rest ; heed what you say and do , and do not be taken up as one of the Carbonari . Masons , forsooth ! You know how I dread that brotherhood . I wish you would abandon it altogether . "
" I will the moment I am persuaded its aims are evil . " " Aims ! " exclaimed the father , testily , " it has no aims ; it is a phantom , a mockery , a shadowless non-entity !" "It is a reality , " cried the young man , warmly ; "the day will come when you will acknowledge its beneficial tendency ; meanwhile , credit me its aims are noble and its principles are eternal . " " Oh ! " cried the old gentleman , and , with an impatient gesture , strode away .
III . Vienna is the Paris of Germany—the gay city of perpetual pleasure . Its inhabitants , apparently , view life as one continuous holiday . Eating , drinking , smoking , dancing , and music make up their round of enjoyments . The
semi-barbarism of Asia they have passed . Of the over-refinement of Europe they have stopped short . And their city itself , how striking ! with the houses of the nobility occupying , in some instances , half the length of a street ; its noble Glacis ; the gardens that intersperse it ; the unrivalled Prater spreading far and wideand as it were encircling it ; the picturesque
, groups of foreigners seated at the doors of various coffeehouses and hotels ; the throng in the streets variegated with the costumes of Turks , Albanians , Tyrolese , Wallachians , Armenians , ancl Italians ; the fronts of the shops painted
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
"Its Precepts Are Eternal;" Or , The Practice Of A Freemason's Daughter.
" Test it , father , tost it , " said the young man , earnestly ; " let me go to Vienna , and on the spot institute inquiries , ancl ascertain the value of the securities we hold . The experiment shall be made at my own risk and cost exclusively . " " That proposal is worth considering , " said the elder
gentleman , musingly . " Define the terms I am to accept , and the terms I am to reject : entrust me with certain powers , and rely upon it I will not exceed them . " " Your project shall be submitted to the combined opinion of the house" was Mr . Heathfield ' s deliberate conclusion ;
, " but hark ye , Maurice , you are about to sojourn in a land where all secret societies are held in abomination , —that of the Freemasons among the rest ; heed what you say and do , and do not be taken up as one of the Carbonari . Masons , forsooth ! You know how I dread that brotherhood . I wish you would abandon it altogether . "
" I will the moment I am persuaded its aims are evil . " " Aims ! " exclaimed the father , testily , " it has no aims ; it is a phantom , a mockery , a shadowless non-entity !" "It is a reality , " cried the young man , warmly ; "the day will come when you will acknowledge its beneficial tendency ; meanwhile , credit me its aims are noble and its principles are eternal . " " Oh ! " cried the old gentleman , and , with an impatient gesture , strode away .
III . Vienna is the Paris of Germany—the gay city of perpetual pleasure . Its inhabitants , apparently , view life as one continuous holiday . Eating , drinking , smoking , dancing , and music make up their round of enjoyments . The
semi-barbarism of Asia they have passed . Of the over-refinement of Europe they have stopped short . And their city itself , how striking ! with the houses of the nobility occupying , in some instances , half the length of a street ; its noble Glacis ; the gardens that intersperse it ; the unrivalled Prater spreading far and wideand as it were encircling it ; the picturesque
, groups of foreigners seated at the doors of various coffeehouses and hotels ; the throng in the streets variegated with the costumes of Turks , Albanians , Tyrolese , Wallachians , Armenians , ancl Italians ; the fronts of the shops painted