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name of Heron , and assume that of James . " You have disgraced your family name , " said they , " by your culpable credulity . Never , till borne by you , was the name of Heron associated with uncancelled liabilities . Y ou have forfeited your government appointment . For the third time you are hellesslborne clown by debt . You are
p y haunted by dread of the bailiff . Fly , then , to a foreign land . Assume a fresh name ; and in a new sphere of duty , acquire new habits , new associates , right views of the value of money ; and , above all , learn to say ' No ? "
IV . If resolute self-denial , unremitting industry , ancl steady devotion to one single object—that of retrieving the pastbe heralds to success , Heron , or James , as we must now call him , possessed them . Dominica , like other of our West India islands , was famed at that time of day for its
luxurious habits ; possessed its herd of well-paid employes , who lived gaily * and did nothing ; men who daily cursed the climate , and yet would take no precautions against it ; whose creed was "All hail the present ! confound the future ! " With such the self-upbraiding exile had no sympatlry . He toiledhe schemedhe saved ; courted
employ-, , ment ; scorned no honourable means of augmenting , however slightly ,-his income ; an ( l deemed no exercise of frugality needless or criminal . Such determined disavowal of Dominica habits , —such rank rebellion against Dominica usages , provoked a storm of angry comment .
" For whom , or for what is he saving ? " was the cry . * ' In the sickly season , life , on this island , is not worth six weeks' purchase . Does he expect to grow old ? Is he proof against ' Yellow Jack ? ' Does he calculate on superannuation and retirement ? The anchorite—the
miserthe misanthrope—what is he aiming at ? ' Careless of comments Jarnes toiled on . He had one earthly goal to reach—England : and in one guise ,- —that of a free unfettered man . But the pangs incidental to his position wrung him . Withinrose up bitter reflections connected with the past .
, Without , were the gibe , and the sneer , and the harsh surmise . And withal he hacl none to confide in—none to consult with . That living being existed not to whom he would disclose his secret , or lav bare the antecedents ofhis
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Silence:
name of Heron , and assume that of James . " You have disgraced your family name , " said they , " by your culpable credulity . Never , till borne by you , was the name of Heron associated with uncancelled liabilities . Y ou have forfeited your government appointment . For the third time you are hellesslborne clown by debt . You are
p y haunted by dread of the bailiff . Fly , then , to a foreign land . Assume a fresh name ; and in a new sphere of duty , acquire new habits , new associates , right views of the value of money ; and , above all , learn to say ' No ? "
IV . If resolute self-denial , unremitting industry , ancl steady devotion to one single object—that of retrieving the pastbe heralds to success , Heron , or James , as we must now call him , possessed them . Dominica , like other of our West India islands , was famed at that time of day for its
luxurious habits ; possessed its herd of well-paid employes , who lived gaily * and did nothing ; men who daily cursed the climate , and yet would take no precautions against it ; whose creed was "All hail the present ! confound the future ! " With such the self-upbraiding exile had no sympatlry . He toiledhe schemedhe saved ; courted
employ-, , ment ; scorned no honourable means of augmenting , however slightly ,-his income ; an ( l deemed no exercise of frugality needless or criminal . Such determined disavowal of Dominica habits , —such rank rebellion against Dominica usages , provoked a storm of angry comment .
" For whom , or for what is he saving ? " was the cry . * ' In the sickly season , life , on this island , is not worth six weeks' purchase . Does he expect to grow old ? Is he proof against ' Yellow Jack ? ' Does he calculate on superannuation and retirement ? The anchorite—the
miserthe misanthrope—what is he aiming at ? ' Careless of comments Jarnes toiled on . He had one earthly goal to reach—England : and in one guise ,- —that of a free unfettered man . But the pangs incidental to his position wrung him . Withinrose up bitter reflections connected with the past .
, Without , were the gibe , and the sneer , and the harsh surmise . And withal he hacl none to confide in—none to consult with . That living being existed not to whom he would disclose his secret , or lav bare the antecedents ofhis