"Further than this, the plan had not been definitely arranged. The most desirable course seemed to be, as my parents' residence had ceased to be watched by the police, to secrete me there for the present, as in no other place could I be so secure of the fidelity of those who were aware of my presence. The great problem was, how to elude the vigilance of the porteress, the ingenuity of Mlle., however, devised a scheme by which we succeeded in effecting my entrance unobserved by her. For an hour my aged parents, who had only been made aware of my proximity a short time previous, when the risk of disappointment was very small, embraced and wept over me. I occupied my own room, and for a week recruited my strength, and rested after the excitement I had undergone. Nothing occurred to alarm us for several days, but one morning we were startled to find that an agent of the police was in the building. My father was sick and in bed, and no search was instituted; if it had been, so well arranged were our plans, and so promptly were they now carried out, by my escaping through a roof window, which was fastened on the inside by Mlle.

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"The alarm, however, reconciled my parents to what my own spirit, chafed by such ignominious idleness, had already begun to desire, namely, to make another effort at escape. I prepared to disguise myself, this time, as an artist, and having filled my portfolio with the sketches I had formerly taken, and provided myself with sufficient money, I again passed the barriers in the same manner as I had on entering the city, and set out for Lyons or Marseilles, as the way might seem to open. I traveled on foot, taking sketches by the way. My assumed profession served admirably to account for any deviations from the high-road which caution suggested, and which might otherwise have excited the suspicion of the curious; while the poverty of the profession was a sufficient excuse for my preference of a bowl of milk and bread at a peasant's door, and a couch of straw in a peasant's barn, to the more expensive accommodations of the village inn. My eye, sharpened by dangers, often detected the government spy, and could he have seen the beating of my heart, he would have had no difficulty in detecting me. The passport, however, which had been taken out for me in my assumed character, by another devoted friend, who had given it up to me at a town beyond the barriers of Paris, served to carry me past the lax inspection of the officials, less vigilant on a route whose length made it rarely taken by refugees from Paris, than they were on the route to the English coast or the Belgian borders.

"For six weeks I traveled in this manner, sketching by day, and sometimes traveling, sometimes resting in barns and peasant's cottages by night. Many a heartfelt expression of compassion did I hear from the good peasant-women; and,-more grateful than all,-many a glance of mingled admiration and pity from the dark-eyed peasant girls of Southern France, for the fair young stranger who traveled so far and so toilsomely;—and many a sketch of scenery, and portrait of a favorite child or venerable grand-parent, adorns the walls that hospitably sheltered me in my long and perilous journey.

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Finding that the road to Marseilles was more vigilantly guarded, I turned my course towards Lyons, in the hope that, although fewer vessels left that port, I might perhaps more easily find means to embark there. Arrived at Lyons, I found that my difficulties were by no means at an end. To seek a passport to a foreign country, I knew, would expose me to the most exact inspection, with the view of testing my correspondence with the description of my passport from Paris, an inspection which the subordinate officials on the route had never happened to make. But what I dreaded more than this was the comparison of my person with the descriptions of the proscribed, which had been sent from the bureau in Paris to the police of the sea-ports.

"While thus at a loss what course to pursue, I was unexpectedly relieved from my perplexity, in consequence of a most singular mistake. It happened that one of the employes of the English Consul boarded at the same humble table with myself. There came in one morning to the Consulate, the captain of an English brig in the harbor, which had taken in her cargo, and left the wharf, but had been prevented by contrary winds from standing out to sea, While thus waiting, the captain conceived the idea of improving the delay by having his ship painted, and the object of his visit to the Consul was to ascertain how he could get it done. Hearing the inquiry for a painter, my friend told him that he knew a young man who was a painter, and had no employment, and would probably do the work for him. Being desired to see if his friend would undertake to paint the vessel, he came to me and proposed to me to do it What was I to do? I saw, and was amused at the man's ignorant inistake, and yet it seemed to suggest the possibility of escape. I had never handled a brush in such guise, in my life, but I determined at once to run the risk, especially as I was to remain on board the vessel until the work was done, or the wind became favorable for her departure on her voyage, I therefore proceeded, with my involuntary deliverer, to the Consul's office,

and with just so much bargaining as was necessary to keep up appearances, undertook the novel employment. The captain procured the necessary materials, and I was carried with him in his boat, passing the officials on the wharf without any difficulty, as the man he had procured to paint his vessel. For several days I worked, and formed the acquaintance of the captain and crew, though I soon perceived that there was little prospect of inducing them to aid in or connive at my escape, if they knew me to be a refugee. It was necessary therefore, to devise some excuse for not wishing to return. I had painted the outside of the vessel, and was at work on the inside, when the captain notified me that the wind had changed and I must go ashore.

"That is not necessary,' I replied, 'I will go along with you, and see England.'

"Ah! but your passport?' he enquired. My heart sank at the word 'passport,' but I made as light of it as I could.

"What need of a passport?' I said, 'M. le Consul has sent me with you, and that is as good as a passport. And I am alone in the world, and may as well, therefore, stay and earn my passage and living, by painting for you, as live in Lyons unemployed.'

"The captain hesitated, and I know not what the result might have been, had not every moment been precious, for the wind was fair, and a gale was threatening which he would be better prepared to meet in the open sea. He bade me therefore go on with my employment, which I did with a bounding heart, as I saw the anchor raised, and heard the shouting of the sailors and the flapping of the sails, and felt the motion of the vessel, as we stood out to sea.

"The shores of my native land soon faded from my view, and one of the victims of Napoleon the Third had escaped his grasp."

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Immediately on his arrival in England, Le nate the anxious suspense of his parents, by informing them of his safety. Nearly three months had elapsed since his departure from Paris, and not a word had they heard from him.

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But he was now in England, friendless, homeless, and almost penniless, and what was he to do? Now occurs one of those curious incident's which constitute the romance of real life. He proposed to Mlle. come over to England and marry him, that they might emigrate together to the United States, and there await, beneath the protection of the only government he could be satisfied to endure, the progress of events which

he fondly hoped was inevitable, which should issue in the downfall of the usurper. The request was seconded by his parents, who warmly urged that she should become the companion and guide of their son, whom she had already saved from imprisonment and probable death. Thus entreated she gave her consent. Bringing with her a supply of money which Le 's father sent to him, she crossed over to England and was met by Le They were united in marriage by an English bishop, in whose family she had formerly lived as governess. She also turned into available shape some property, which she had invested in the English funds, and they made their arrangements for a trans-atlantic voyage.

Such was the history of this most interesting couple, whose companionship relieved the tediousness of the voyage, whose misfortunes excited sympathy, while their talents and accomplishments and genuine superiority of character inspired respect.

A KNOWLEDGE OF HUMAN NATURE.

THE foundation of all speculative as well as practical knowledge lies in the uniformities. Were it not that the forces of Nature act according to certain fixed laws, there would be no such thing as science. If there were not uniformities to be depended upon, all the certainties of mercantile life would be annihilated, society would be a blank, and progress would be unknown. The science of Mind, perhaps the least determinate of all the sciences, could not exist, were it not that there are laws to human thought, that the mind has certain fundamental operations, and that the mental operations are, in the main, subjected to similar and stated modes.

But while there are fixed conditions under which the mind acts, its power of independent volition, which, indeed, gives to man the supremacy over the other and inferior orders of creation, renders his actions less

capable of being foreseen, and less reducible to certain primary and elemental laws. Now the study of these laws constitutes, according to some, and it is true, in one sense, the study of human nature. The manifesting modes of the phenomena of mind certainly demand serious and attentive study. They are worthy of the highest, and, assuredly, if Human Nature is comprehended in these, it falls below none in point of interest. To know and understand the constitution of the divine gift of God to man, to trace the operations of the intellect as truth and error are presented to it, as it prepares itself for investigation and invention, as it marshals its forces in defence of the right, as it indulges in creating images of the beautiful, as it stores up the accumulated knowledge of investigation and experience, is indeed a study worthy of all effort, and will fully repay the utmost patience. And, indeed, under a perfect constitution, where the divine economy was fully carried out, where truth alone was regarded, where error exerted no influence, not swerving the mind from the true and the good, then this would be all, as it is now claimed by some to be, of the knowledge of human nature. But, situated as we are, in a world into which sin has entered, and in which it has deformed and changed and modified the face of Nature for thousands of years, where error, from the imperfection of our faculties, has insinuated itself into all the processes of life and action, where man is led by the force of adventitious circumstances into conditions of trial and danger, with nothing to depend upon but the teachings of a diseased intellect, an entirely new view is presented of all those modifications of action, that would not be shown under a constitution of things not wholly right, and which would be governed by a perfect morality, protected by a full and perfect intellect. Even in case the performance of every duty be regarded as the main object of an individual life, yet the conflicting passions of a fallen nature influence from within, and the caprices and iniquity of a fallen humanity influence from without.

Utility is the acknowledged end of man's action. He does what seems to be best. What is best is looked to, first as an end, and then as a means. These ends and means are suggested mainly by passion. There is no uniformity in passion, because there is no uniformity in that which excites passion, and hence there is risk in action. The chances of life may be favorable or they may not. What seems, at the moment, to be best, may result in a failure. What seems least likely to succeed may, perchance, be most successful. Uniformity may be traceable in a great number of instances, but in the individual cases there is no certainty.