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Article THURLOGH, THE MILESIAN. ← Page 11 of 18 →
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Thurlogh, The Milesian.
The detected culprit shivered like an aspen leaf ; and the sting of conscience seemed to have been already at work . It was , however , the quickening of fear , and not the seething of remorse . Vice and depravity had rendered him callous to compunction : and even in the ghastly terror now manifest in his visage , there appeared that fiendish mixture of disgrace consequent upon exposure struggling with regret at the miscarriage of his satanic purposes .
" You escape , " says the trusty and the virtuous-minded Morgan , elevated beyond himself , by the rectitude of his mind , and the abhorrence he entertained for the baseness of the knave before him ; " you are free , " says he , " the same motives that prevented my young master from polluting his band by touching you , prevents even me now likewise from inflicting chastisement upon you for your deserts—go . therefore , —avaunt . "
" No , Morgan ; not so very easy yet : our little luggage has been left at that vile house ; and it is ten to one but that our smooth tongued friend would exert the lubricity also of his heels , and possess himself , before us , of its contents . " " Make yourself easy on that score , Master Lucius , dear : I know the house , and will myself fetch the luggage ; but , first , Mr . Swindler , let me . give you the turn out . " No soonerhoweverwas the swindler beyond the thresholdthan he
, , , tried what agility still remained in his lower limbs . To his heels he betook himself , and , with might and main , exerted their appliance , to reach his harpies and their den , before Morgan ' s approach could frustrate this last remnant of his exploded villany . An all-pervading eye , however , though for inscrutable objects it may for a while allow the impious to prosper in their course , and that , too , to the detriment of the pious and the honourable , vet generally exercises the
purport of this superintendence , when the wicked one feels most secure , and when the cause of the just one seems most desperate and most forlorn ! Having been better acquainted with the alleys and the windings of the southern capital , than Morgan was , the swindler made his way , with almost winged flight towards his point of destination ; when , as he suddenly turned a corner , the street beside which was to lead him to his home , he plunged headlong against the leader horse of one of the night coaches , as it bolted up from under an arch , and received as violent a shock as to fall
breathless upon the flinty pavement . Morgan had by this time come up by another route , and forcing his way through the assembled throng , saw the judgment of Providence in the infliction of this disaster . His own hostility , therefore , instantly subsided : " God has now , " thought he , " taken this man under his own scourge ;—I wage no war with the dead ; and my only regret is that I had not been up a little earlier while the spirit still lingered , to fan its spark , and administer the assistance of medical knowledge " "Oh ! those young gentlemen , those young gentlemen ! " cried the invalid , just recovering animation , and recollecting , perhaps , the intonation of Morgan ' s voice .
Morgan now saw that death had not yet set in—that his gripe might be still procrastinated—and that , as some evidences of contrition had manifested themselves in those exclamations , it would be richly worth while to cultivate their growth and do all that was possible for the restoration of body also . A physician , therefore , was procured : and consigning the patient to his care , Morgan resumed his original embassy , and soou presented himself with the luggage before his anxious protegeesAnd so he recounted to them
. the whole catastrophe from the beginning to the conclusion . " I hope , Morgan , you will make it a point to enquire regularly after the poor man ' s health . " " Indeed , Master Thurlogh , I shall , and take care furthermore that he shall want for nothing during his illness . "
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Thurlogh, The Milesian.
The detected culprit shivered like an aspen leaf ; and the sting of conscience seemed to have been already at work . It was , however , the quickening of fear , and not the seething of remorse . Vice and depravity had rendered him callous to compunction : and even in the ghastly terror now manifest in his visage , there appeared that fiendish mixture of disgrace consequent upon exposure struggling with regret at the miscarriage of his satanic purposes .
" You escape , " says the trusty and the virtuous-minded Morgan , elevated beyond himself , by the rectitude of his mind , and the abhorrence he entertained for the baseness of the knave before him ; " you are free , " says he , " the same motives that prevented my young master from polluting his band by touching you , prevents even me now likewise from inflicting chastisement upon you for your deserts—go . therefore , —avaunt . "
" No , Morgan ; not so very easy yet : our little luggage has been left at that vile house ; and it is ten to one but that our smooth tongued friend would exert the lubricity also of his heels , and possess himself , before us , of its contents . " " Make yourself easy on that score , Master Lucius , dear : I know the house , and will myself fetch the luggage ; but , first , Mr . Swindler , let me . give you the turn out . " No soonerhoweverwas the swindler beyond the thresholdthan he
, , , tried what agility still remained in his lower limbs . To his heels he betook himself , and , with might and main , exerted their appliance , to reach his harpies and their den , before Morgan ' s approach could frustrate this last remnant of his exploded villany . An all-pervading eye , however , though for inscrutable objects it may for a while allow the impious to prosper in their course , and that , too , to the detriment of the pious and the honourable , vet generally exercises the
purport of this superintendence , when the wicked one feels most secure , and when the cause of the just one seems most desperate and most forlorn ! Having been better acquainted with the alleys and the windings of the southern capital , than Morgan was , the swindler made his way , with almost winged flight towards his point of destination ; when , as he suddenly turned a corner , the street beside which was to lead him to his home , he plunged headlong against the leader horse of one of the night coaches , as it bolted up from under an arch , and received as violent a shock as to fall
breathless upon the flinty pavement . Morgan had by this time come up by another route , and forcing his way through the assembled throng , saw the judgment of Providence in the infliction of this disaster . His own hostility , therefore , instantly subsided : " God has now , " thought he , " taken this man under his own scourge ;—I wage no war with the dead ; and my only regret is that I had not been up a little earlier while the spirit still lingered , to fan its spark , and administer the assistance of medical knowledge " "Oh ! those young gentlemen , those young gentlemen ! " cried the invalid , just recovering animation , and recollecting , perhaps , the intonation of Morgan ' s voice .
Morgan now saw that death had not yet set in—that his gripe might be still procrastinated—and that , as some evidences of contrition had manifested themselves in those exclamations , it would be richly worth while to cultivate their growth and do all that was possible for the restoration of body also . A physician , therefore , was procured : and consigning the patient to his care , Morgan resumed his original embassy , and soou presented himself with the luggage before his anxious protegeesAnd so he recounted to them
. the whole catastrophe from the beginning to the conclusion . " I hope , Morgan , you will make it a point to enquire regularly after the poor man ' s health . " " Indeed , Master Thurlogh , I shall , and take care furthermore that he shall want for nothing during his illness . "