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Article EPISODES IN THE LIFE OF A FREEMASON. ← Page 8 of 9 →
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Episodes In The Life Of A Freemason.
on so frail a secmity , ancl so the only thing to be done was to get myself appointed as a ' cadet . ' A foreigner Avithout friends , in a strange city , did not seem , according to the usual scale of probabilities , a A'ery likely person to receive any such mark of favour , and I could hardly expect to find in Vienna so kind a friend as I had met in Paris ; besides any thought of deriving
assistance again from Masonry xvas out of the question , as I xvell kneAV that the Craft is everywhere proscribed throughout the Austrian empire . " Here , then , xvas xvhat the Yankees call a ' fix , ' and the question xvas how to get out of it ? "After I hacl been some short time at A ienna , I-wrote a letter
to my father , telling him of all I had clone , ancl xA'hat I xvished to do , begging his forgiveness of the past , and requesting his sanction ancl assistance for my future plans . It Avas some time before I received any reply , OAving , I believe , to some irregularity in the postal arrangements . " During this period of supense and anxiety I was certainly far from , comfortable , ancl as the time wore on , and my resources were gradually becoming more and more scanty , I began to form
desperate resolutions of entering the army as a common soldier , and recklessly bearing all the inconveniences which such a position would have entailed upon me in a variety of ways . A month passed ; six weeks elapsed , and no tidings reached me from home ; xvhen one morning I received an hitimation from the police authorities , that unless I coidd give a satisfactory
reference to some banker or other respectable person in the city , I must quit A ienna in twenty-four homs . " This was a worse ' fix' than all , and hax'ing nobody else to confide my troubles to , I made a confidant of ' mine host . ' The xvorthy man seemed much distressed at my position , and had evidentlthe willthough notas I imaginedthe poxver to
y , , , help me . By one of those unaccountable impulses to which we are all liable , it suddenly came into my mind that tliis man might be a Mason . DroAvning men catch at ' straws ; this xvas my last hope , and it proved not to be a vain one . My landlord xvas a Brother ; as soon as he discovered the ties of fraternity by which vre were connectedhe began to hug me in the German
, fashion , and displayed the most vehement tokens of delight . I was soon in possession of a satisfactory reference , and was thus enabled to remain at Vienna until I received intelligence from home .
" But then came another difficulty ; my funds xvere all but exhausted , and I xvas obliged to confess this state of things to mine host . He saicl I might make myself perfectly easy
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Episodes In The Life Of A Freemason.
on so frail a secmity , ancl so the only thing to be done was to get myself appointed as a ' cadet . ' A foreigner Avithout friends , in a strange city , did not seem , according to the usual scale of probabilities , a A'ery likely person to receive any such mark of favour , and I could hardly expect to find in Vienna so kind a friend as I had met in Paris ; besides any thought of deriving
assistance again from Masonry xvas out of the question , as I xvell kneAV that the Craft is everywhere proscribed throughout the Austrian empire . " Here , then , xvas xvhat the Yankees call a ' fix , ' and the question xvas how to get out of it ? "After I hacl been some short time at A ienna , I-wrote a letter
to my father , telling him of all I had clone , ancl xA'hat I xvished to do , begging his forgiveness of the past , and requesting his sanction ancl assistance for my future plans . It Avas some time before I received any reply , OAving , I believe , to some irregularity in the postal arrangements . " During this period of supense and anxiety I was certainly far from , comfortable , ancl as the time wore on , and my resources were gradually becoming more and more scanty , I began to form
desperate resolutions of entering the army as a common soldier , and recklessly bearing all the inconveniences which such a position would have entailed upon me in a variety of ways . A month passed ; six weeks elapsed , and no tidings reached me from home ; xvhen one morning I received an hitimation from the police authorities , that unless I coidd give a satisfactory
reference to some banker or other respectable person in the city , I must quit A ienna in twenty-four homs . " This was a worse ' fix' than all , and hax'ing nobody else to confide my troubles to , I made a confidant of ' mine host . ' The xvorthy man seemed much distressed at my position , and had evidentlthe willthough notas I imaginedthe poxver to
y , , , help me . By one of those unaccountable impulses to which we are all liable , it suddenly came into my mind that tliis man might be a Mason . DroAvning men catch at ' straws ; this xvas my last hope , and it proved not to be a vain one . My landlord xvas a Brother ; as soon as he discovered the ties of fraternity by which vre were connectedhe began to hug me in the German
, fashion , and displayed the most vehement tokens of delight . I was soon in possession of a satisfactory reference , and was thus enabled to remain at Vienna until I received intelligence from home .
" But then came another difficulty ; my funds xvere all but exhausted , and I xvas obliged to confess this state of things to mine host . He saicl I might make myself perfectly easy