After dinner, he mounted his horse, and rode several miles. When he
returned, one would not have known, to look at him, that anything
unusual had happened.
* * * * *
During the nest week Hiram was occupied in making his will. A new and
important idea seemed to have possession of him.
* * * * *
From that period he never permitted his daughter's name to be mentioned,
and would receive no communication from her.
Arabella's hysterics continued, at intervals for several days. Her
husband, in view of his violence toward her, was very considerate, but
the affair was never alluded to by either.
Arabella, perhaps, felt that she deserved some punishment for tolerating
the 'Count in disguise;' and Hiram never got over a certain feeling of
mortification when he thought of the scene in the parlor.
Here we leave all the parties for the present.
THE MECHANICAL TENDENCY IN MODERN SOCIETY.
There is no greater absurdity than the attempt to demonstrate anything
from historical evidence, or to frame from it an argument whose cogency
shall even approach to a demonstration. Granting the hypothesis that
like causes will always produce like effects, we find ourselves unable
to show that the cases are exactly, or even proximately, the same.
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