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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Adventures of a Sixpence in Guernsey by A
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+Title: Adventures of a Sixpence in Guernsey by A Native
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+ADVENTURES OF A SIXPENCE IN GUERNSEY.
+
+BY
+
+A NATIVE.
+
+SEELEY, JACKSON, AND HALLIDAY, FLEET STREET;
+
+AND B. SEELEY, HANOVER STREET.
+
+LONDON. MDCCCLVII.
+
+Printed by G. BARCLAY, Castle St. Leicester Sq.
+
+[Illustration: Frontispiece]
+
+
+
+
+ADVENTURES OF A SIXPENCE IN GUERNSEY.
+
+
+The breakfast was ready laid on the table, and a gentleman was standing
+by the fire waiting for the rest of the family, when the door burst
+open, and two little girls ran in.
+
+"A happy new year, papa!--a happy new year!" shouted each as she was
+caught up to be kissed, and found herself on the floor once more after a
+sudden whirl to the ceiling.
+
+"Now catch," said their father, as he started aside and flung a sixpence
+to each.
+
+Of course they did not catch, for little girls have a strange
+propensity for turning just the wrong way on such occasions; but the
+bright new sixpences were none the duller for their fall, and called
+forth none the less admiration from their proud owners.
+
+Many were the calculations which passed through those curly heads during
+breakfast-time as to what a sixpence could buy; and it was with many
+bright visions that they darted away to be dressed to go into the town
+with their mother.
+
+It was New-year's day; but there was no snow, no bitter cold wind, no
+beggars shivering in their scanty clothing, none of the scenes of
+poverty which those accustomed only to an English winter might expect to
+cast a gloom over the enjoyment of the day. It was a bright sunny
+morning, every leaf sparkling with dew-drops; groups of neatly-dressed
+people were to be seen flocking in from the country in every direction;
+and though the air was fresh enough to incline them to walk briskly
+along, their hands were not hidden away in muffs and coat-pockets, but
+were ready for the friendly shake which, with "all the good wishes of
+the season," awaited them at every step.
+
+Mrs. Campbell and her little girls, after many a greeting of this kind,
+found their way into the town at last; and the children soon forgot
+everything in the twelfth-cakes which adorned the pastry-cooks' windows,
+till the sixpence, which was tightly clasped in each little hand,
+recalled them to their errand, and they joined the busy crowd in the
+toy-shop. Who does not know what it is to take a child into these abodes
+of Noah's arks, cats, dogs, mice, and dolls, and all that is so
+charming? How each toy is seized on in its turn, to be relinquished in a
+moment for one more beautiful! It was no easy task that Mrs. Campbell
+had undertaken; but at last, in a moment of ecstasy over two blue-eyed
+dolls, the sixpences were paid, and the young purchasers drawn away from
+further temptation. And we, too, must wish them good-by, with the hope
+that the next new year may find them bright and happy still, and that
+before many more have passed over them they will have learnt a wiser and
+a better way of spending their father's gift; a way in which their
+sixpence, though it be but a sixpence, will be returned in tenfold
+blessings on their heads.
+
+It is with one of the little pieces of silver which have just rung in
+the till that we have to do. It had lain there for about two hours, the
+same scenes going on around it which we have witnessed with its owner of
+the morning, when a tall moustachioed young man entered the shop, which
+was not exclusively devoted to toys, and asked to be shown some gold
+pencil-cases. His choice was soon made, the money paid, and our friend
+the Sixpence received in change. Ah, Sixpence! what sort of hands have
+you fallen into now? We have undertaken to follow your fortunes for a
+time, and therefore, uncomfortable as our quarters may be, we must take
+up our abode with you in Captain Crawford's waistcoat-pocket, and go
+where he pleases to lead us. Up High Street and Smith Street to Grange
+Road, where we mount and away from houses and streets and the
+fashionable world; among the fields and hedges, just decking themselves
+with Daisies and Celandines, and every now and then, at the top of the
+many little hills which the road crosses, comes a peep of the bright
+blue sea, from which, go where we will, we can never get very far away
+in Guernsey. After a short ride, Captain Crawford pulled up his horse,
+and giving it into the care of a boy who answered his call, he walked
+down an avenue to a pretty rose-covered house, which he entered, and
+made his way to the drawing-room.
+
+"Well, my little one, what have you been about all the morning?" was his
+greeting as he opened the door to a delicate-looking girl who lay on the
+sofa.
+
+"Oh, Edward!" she answered, "I was just wishing for you. I feel rather
+better than usual to-day, and mamma says I may take a turn in the
+garden. I was only waiting for your arm. Will you ring for my bonnet?"
+
+"Look, here is a New-year's gift for you, Ellen," said her brother,
+taking the gold pencil-case out of his pocket and hanging it on her
+chain.
+
+"Oh! thanks--thanks, Edward!" she said warmly, as she pulled his head
+down to her, and threw her arms round his neck; "My own brother, how
+good of you! this is just what I wanted."
+
+"I never yet knew you have anything which was not _just_ what you
+wanted, Ellen. Is there anything in the world you wish for now?"
+
+"No, I am very happy. You none of you give me an opportunity of wishing
+for anything; as soon as I wish, I have it. You all spoil me."
+
+"I know what I wish," said her brother; "and that is, that I had your
+secret of finding everything so very comfortable. What is it, little
+one?"
+
+He had seated himself by her side, and was stroking the hair back from
+her forehead, while she lay in quiet enjoyment of his gentle touch; but
+on hearing his last question she raised her large dark eyes, fixing them
+earnestly on his face for one moment, but without speaking. She was soon
+ready for her walk, and, leaning on her brother's arm, let him half
+carry half lead her out.
+
+"Let us go to the gate, Edward," she said, when they reached the door;
+"the children will be coming out of school, and I may see some of my
+little friends."
+
+They walked very slowly, and neither spoke for a few moments, till Ellen
+said, in rather a hurried tone, "I was wrong just now when I told you I
+never wished for anything; there is one thing I want very much, and
+which you can never give me."
+
+"What is it?" asked her brother.
+
+"To be able to live over again the twenty years of health which have
+just passed from me, and to have again all the money I spent in that
+time."
+
+"Why, my dear Ellen," said Captain Crawford gaily, "you are the last
+person in the world to say anything of the sort. I am sure the greatest
+pleasure of your days of health was to take puddings and sixpences to
+old women; and if that is not a satisfactory way of spending one's time
+and money, I don't know what is. But really, Ellen," he said, more
+seriously, as he saw her grave face, "I do not see what reason you have
+to blame yourself, after such a life as yours has been. I should have
+thought the recollection of it would now have been your greatest
+comfort; and that, after taking care of others for so long, you might
+enjoy being taken care of yourself now. But, my little one! what is the
+matter?"
+
+Ellen had stopped, and, with her head resting on his shoulder, was
+sobbing violently.
+
+"Edward, don't!" she said, as soon as she could command herself; "I
+can't bear it! Think of the handsome allowance papa makes me, and how
+little of it has been well spent! And then, what was given away did not
+do a quarter of the good it might have done, because I did not go and
+give it myself, and kind words with it, which are far more comforting
+than food or money. And if you will believe me, Edward, extravagance
+has become such a habit with me, that though I resolved last quarter to
+be economical and save up something for the new church, I had hardly
+anything left at the end of it. It is true I did teach at the school a
+little, and visit a few people, but what is that compared to what I
+ought to have done?"
+
+By this time they had reached the gate, and Ellen, drying her tears, was
+soon talking almost merrily with the children, who ran up eagerly at the
+sight of their former teacher. Edward had forgotten the little Guernsey
+French he had once known, and stood by, glad to see his favourite sister
+so happy; but wondering what pleasure she could find in talking to a set
+of dirty little things like those. Captain Crawford called them dirty,
+because most officers in her Majesty's service, if they think on the
+subject at all, think rags and dirtiness necessary attendants on poor
+children; but if Captain Crawford had looked, he would have seen as
+clean and _neat_ a flock of little ones around his sister as the United
+Kingdom could produce.
+
+Just as they were going to return to the house a man passed by, and
+touched his hat to Miss Crawford in the somewhat off-hand manner which
+(we must confess it) our fellow-countrymen usually employ. Ellen stopped
+a moment to make some inquiries of him about his wife and children, and
+then turned home-wards, saying, as she took her brother's arm,--
+
+"I dare say a good dinner would do that man's daughter a world of good;
+she is ill, and they are very poor: but then there is no way of sending
+it."
+
+"Where do they live?" asked Edward.
+
+"Oh, it is half-an-hour's walk: they live close to the beach."
+
+"I'll take it," said he; and added, by way of apology, "I should rather
+like a walk before dinner."
+
+A happy gleam passed over Ellen's face, but she only said,--
+
+"Thank you, Edward," and gave him one very bright look, when he left her
+on her sofa and went to fetch some meat for the sick girl.
+
+It was with feelings of amusement, rather than anything else, that
+Edward set out on what was probably the first errand of mercy he had
+ever undertaken. He had done it merely to please his sister, and could
+not help laughing at the idea of what some of his brother-officers would
+say if they could see Crawford of the ---- Regiment carrying food to a
+sick girl. But his conversation with Ellen soon returned to his mind,
+and the thought struck him, "If my good, unselfish little sister, thinks
+her time and money have been wasted, what have mine been? According to
+her, the sixpence which I have occasionally thrown to a beggar to quiet
+my conscience was only half charity, because I did not add 'kind words,'
+as she would say. But I wonder what people would say if I were to
+inquire after the birth, parentage, and education of every
+street-sweeper I came across? No, my vocation is to defend my Queen and
+country, and not to act the charitable." Something whispered, "Cannot
+you do both?" but Edward would not listen, and soon arrived at his
+destination. The door was opened by the sick girl's mother, who, with
+her "_Bon jour, monsieur! Entrez, s'il vous plait_," took Edward rather
+by surprise, and would by no means hear of receiving the gift outside
+the door. This was more than he had bargained for; he had come on a
+message from Ellen, not for a charitable visit on her own account: but
+there was no alternative, and go in he must. The woman spoke a little
+English; and while she poured forth her gratitude to Miss Crawford,
+together with a long account of her daughter's maladies, saying so much
+in one breath that it became a question whether she would ever breathe
+again, Captain Crawford looked at the sick girl lying pale and thin by
+the fire; and when he thought how miserable her lot was compared even
+with his sister's, whose sufferings were soothed by all that affection
+could suggest or that money could buy, his heart--for he had a heart,
+and a warm one too--was touched, and his hand went to the waistcoat
+pocket where the sixpence had been deposited in the morning. He was
+disappointed to find so little there, and wondered whether it was worth
+giving her. "If Ellen were here to add some of her 'kind words,'" he
+thought, it might do very well; "however, I'll try."
+
+Next time Mrs. Tourtel stopped to take breath he went and stood by the
+poor girl, and said,--
+
+"Miss Crawford is ill too and cannot come to see you, but she often
+thinks of you. Perhaps this will buy you a small loaf of white bread, as
+your mother says you cannot eat brown."
+
+She only said, "_Mercie, monsieur_;" but the bright colour, which spread
+itself over her pale face at the mention of Ellen's thought of her, told
+Edward that he had said the right thing; and with a gentle "Good-by, I
+hope you will soon be better," he left the cottage. He walked fast with
+his head bent, as if to hide his face; but we must run after him, and
+have a peep at it. He is smiling, and--can it be?--he is blushing!
+Captain Crawford, who never turned pale before the Russians at Alma or
+Inkermann, is now blushing scarlet before his own approving conscience
+and the gratitude of a sick girl. The smile and blush were not gone when
+he reached home, and Ellen saw both and smiled too, but wisely said
+nothing. The ice on Edward's heart was broken; a few "kind words" had
+flowed out and melted it. He went to sleep that night, and dreamed that
+angels were saying "kind words" to him; Ellen went to sleep, too, and
+dreamed of her brother reading the Bible to the dying on a battle-field;
+and the sick girl lay awake all night, thinking how good it was of Miss
+Crawford to think of her, and how good of the Captain to tell her so.
+
+The Sixpence had done a good day's work; had a shilling been in its
+place, it would probably have failed in accomplishing it; and Captain
+Crawford, thinking money the best way to the heart of the poor, would
+never have tasted the joy of soothing sad hearts by kindness. Alas!
+little Sixpence, that you who have been such a blessing to-day, should
+become a curse to-morrow; that you who have gone forth on errands of
+mercy to-day, should dwell in scenes of drunkenness and theft to-morrow!
+
+Early next morning Mrs. Tourtel went to market, and left the Sixpence
+at a baker's shop in payment for a white loaf for her daughter. There it
+spent the day--a quiet day--broken by few events. It might have seen the
+fresh bread taken out of the oven, and packed in the cart which waited
+at the door to receive it; and it might have seen many people bustle in
+and out of the shop, from the little child to buy a penny loaf, to the
+gentleman's housekeeper to pay the week's bill; but it remained
+undisturbed till the shutters were taken down on the following morning,
+when a man came to buy a small loaf for his breakfast, and received the
+Sixpence in change. Appearances were far more against it this time than
+they had been before. John Barker had an unshaved beard, a scowling eye,
+and a red face; his dress consisted of a blue woollen shirt, coarse blue
+trousers grimed in mud, and a low-crowned black hat; on his shoulder he
+carried a spade and pickaxe. As he walked along he was joined by others
+of an equally unprepossessing appearance, and found many more already
+assembled at the scene of their labours--the new harbour.
+
+The sun was not yet risen, and a mist hung over the sea, through which
+the signal-post at Castle Cornet, and the masts of the vessels in the
+roads, were the only objects visible; but there was a faint red streak
+in the sky, which grew brighter and brighter every moment, till the
+sunrise gun fired; and then the mist changed into a golden veil, which
+floated insensibly away, leaving every geranium-leaf outside the windows
+white with hoar-frost, just to tantalise the townsfolk more distant
+islands became just visible, mingling the blue of the sea and the violet
+of the sky so mysteriously in their delicate colouring, that they were
+scarcely distinguishable from either. And then the carts began to roll
+along the quay, and work commenced on board the ships in the harbour,
+and the sailors' cry as they hoisted the sails, mingled with the
+rattling of chains and the creaking of the cranes outside the stores. At
+about nine o'clock up ran the ball at the signal-post, which announced
+the approach of the mail-boat, and as she steamed behind the Castle, and
+anchored in the roads, there were hasty embraces and shakes of the hand
+on the pier, and the passengers were rowed out to embark. A few minutes,
+and the tinkling of a bell was heard from the shore; another--one more;
+her wheels were turning, she was off for Southampton, and the passengers
+from Jersey were landing at the quay.
+
+All this, and much more, might John Barker have seen, and probably he
+did see it, but found nothing beautiful or exciting in it. He did not
+hold his breath as that cutter approached and ran between the
+pier-heads, her sail dipping in the wave which bore her in. He saw it a
+dozen times that day, and had seen it a hundred times before, but never
+cared to see it again. He worked sullenly on, exchanging few words with
+his fellow-labourers, till the twilight compelled them to shoulder their
+tools; and they then made their way, alas! to the many public-houses
+near, and one of them we must enter with John Barker, and see the
+Sixpence, that little messenger of good--that talent committed to his
+care--far worse than wasted by its responsible owner. Happily, the
+payment was not long delayed, and glad shall we be to hide our eyes and
+stop our ears from all that goes on without in the till with our little
+friend.
+
+It is about midnight, the noisy guests are gone, the people of the house
+are in bed, and we may now venture forth from our hiding-place to look
+through the chink in the door. It is a clear frosty night. The moon,
+just rising, is brightly reflected in the water. The stars are looking
+silently down on the sleeping town. Castle Cornet rises gloomily out of
+the sea. The moonlit sky, which shows us its outline only, leaves much
+to the imagination. We may fancy it a frowning fortress of modern days;
+or we may go back two hundred years, and think we see the ruin which
+told of its nine-years' siege. But we would rather think of Castle
+Cornet as we know it now, with its old keep standing as a monument of
+bygone days; or better still, we would thank the rising moon for veiling
+it in such solemn mystery, and would let our fancy share the rest which
+seems to pervade all around, while we enjoy the perfect stillness. There
+is not a sound, except the ripple of the water. Houses, streets, ships,
+men, women, and children, all seem resting peacefully in the silent
+night. But, hark! there was a sound of cracking from the window! Again
+and again we hear it, and whispering too outside. A few moments more,
+and the window is opened, and two men have crept in. They are some of
+the guests of the evening come to recover thus what they and their
+companions have wasted here to-night, that they may have it to waste
+once more. The till was quickly rifled, and at a slight noise overhead
+the thieves beat a precipitate retreat, and, in their haste, dropped our
+Sixpence in the street outside. Happy little Sixpence! to have escaped
+such hands; better to lie on the cold, hard pavement, curtained by the
+freezing air, than stay to be used as the fruits of theft invariably
+are.
+
+It was only just light when a little girl, whose rosy cheeks told that
+the country air had kissed them that morning, passed by with a basket on
+her arm nearly as big as herself. Her bright eyes soon spied the little
+piece of money, and with a dart she caught it up; but, like an honest
+girl, looked round to see if any one had dropped it. There was nobody
+near but a dirty, good-tempered-looking coalheaver, who, seeing her
+perplexity, said, "It must have been there all night, for nobody but me
+has passed this morning; so you may keep it, if you like." Quite
+content, she tripped away with her basket to join her mother in the
+market, and tell of her good fortune.
+
+Being a wise little maiden, Mary Falla did not spend her money that day,
+but took it home all safe and sound, to gain time for consideration on
+so important a subject. No selfish thoughts mingled with her
+calculations, and therefore she very soon came to the decision that it
+should go towards a pair of stockings for her grandmother; and happy in
+the hope of giving pleasure, she only longed for the accumulation of a
+little store sufficient to buy the necessary materials, and enable her
+to begin her work. But even sixpences are not to be picked up every day,
+and when a month had passed, only one penny had been added to the fund.
+Just at this time there was a sermon one Sunday morning for the same new
+church of which Miss Crawford had spoken to her brother. Mrs. Falla was
+one of the few who were to be found regularly in their places in
+church; and Mary, who was always with her mother, heard the sermon. We
+cannot boast of our little heroine that she always listened to the
+sermon; sometimes she did not understand it, sometimes she did not find
+it interesting; but this sermon she did find interesting, and liked very
+much, for it was about a church which she saw every day of her life; and
+it told how much the church was wanted by sick and old people who could
+not reach the parish church; and Mary knew she liked to go to church,
+and was very sorry for her old grandmother, and many others whom she had
+heard regret the distance. As they walked home she seemed to have
+something very interesting to think about, for she dropped behind, and
+kept her eyes fixed on the ground in a manner most unusual with this
+merry little maiden; at last, however, she settled the question to her
+own satisfaction, and ran up to her mother,--
+
+"_Ma mère_, don't you think I had better give my sixpence to the new
+church? Grandmother would rather have a church near to go to, than a
+pair of stockings next winter, I'm sure; and it would do good to so many
+other people besides."
+
+"As you like, _ma chère_," answered her mother: "it is your own money."
+
+Not many days after this, there was a knock at the door after Mary had
+returned from school, and Captain Crawford entered, now no stranger in
+the cottages round, for the last few weeks had worked a wonderful change
+in this respect. The first time he did a kindness to the poor, it was
+because he could not help it; the second time it was because he had
+found it pleasant; but the third time there was a shade of another
+motive mingling with it. Ellen had told him why she was always happy;
+she had told him where he might learn the way to be happy too better
+than she could teach him. He had taken her advice, had read the Bible,
+and now was humbly endeavouring to obey its commands; and in conformity
+to his sister's entreaty, not to misspend his days of health, scarcely a
+day was now permitted to pass without his doing something for the good
+of his fellow-creatures. He always told the poor that he was come on a
+message from his sister, lest they should be inclined to be grateful to
+him, and make him blush, as the sick girl had done. Some questioned,
+however, whether Miss Crawford told him always to add a franc or two to
+the gift which she sent; or whether Miss Crawford dictated to him all
+the "kind words" which now made him so welcome a visitor; and when the
+old blind man complained of having no one to read to him, and Captain
+Crawford took the Bible and read him "_deux superbes chapitres_," he was
+quite sure that Miss Crawford had nothing at all to do with it.
+
+His present visit to Mary's grandmother was to tell her that ten pounds
+had been collected the Sunday before for the new church; and that as
+some handsome contributions had been since received, he hoped she would
+soon see it finished. Mary ran away as soon as she had let him in, and
+soon came back with cheeks as red as fire, eyes cast down, and something
+clasped very tight in her hand, looking altogether much more like a
+thief than the good, honest little Mary that she was. But when Captain
+Crawford got up to go away, she went to him, and as he stooped to hear
+what she had to say, she repeated very quick, in a very low voice, the
+little speech she had prepared in her best English: "Please to give dat
+to Miss Crawford, to go for the new church dat's being builded." Happy
+Mary! how full of love that little heart was! how it rejoiced in giving
+pleasure! and how she did wish that she was rich, that she might make
+everybody comfortable!
+
+"Here is a contribution to the church, my little one," said Edward, when
+he reached home, "which I think you will agree with me is worth more
+than all the five-pound notes we have received. Sixpence from Mary
+Falla!"
+
+"Dear little Mary! Put it into the church-bag, Edward. If our church
+could be all built with such sixpences as those--"
+
+And in the church-bag we must leave the Sixpence, resting a little while
+before it goes forth again on its errands of joy and sorrow, of blessing
+and cursing.
+
+There was a little stone in the church-tower far more precious than all
+the rest. It was not a cut stone; it did not sparkle in the bright sun
+which shone on the consecration-day; none of the colours of the ruby,
+emerald, or amethyst, beamed from it; it was a richer gem than they--the
+gift of a willing heart.
+
+
+
+
+London:--Printed by G. BARCLAY, Castle St. Leicester Sq.
+
+
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+<h1>ADVENTURES OF A SIXPENCE IN GUERNSEY.</h1>
+
+<h3>BY</h3>
+
+<h2>A NATIVE.</h2>
+
+<p class='center'>SEELEY, JACKSON, AND HALLIDAY, FLEET STREET;<br />
+AND B. SEELEY, HANOVER STREET.<br />
+LONDON. MDCCCLVII.</p>
+
+<p class='center'>Printed by <span class="smcap">G. Barclay</span>, Castle St. Leicester Sq.</p>
+
+<hr />
+
+<p class="center"><img src="images/frontispiece.jpg" width='700' height='473' alt="frontispiece" /></p>
+
+
+<h2>ADVENTURES OF A SIXPENCE IN GUERNSEY.</h2>
+
+
+<p>The breakfast was ready laid on the table, and a gentleman was standing
+by the fire waiting for the rest of the family, when the door burst
+open, and two little girls ran in.</p>
+
+<p>"A happy new year, papa!&mdash;a happy new year!" shouted each as she was
+caught up to be kissed, and found herself on the floor once more after a
+sudden whirl to the ceiling.</p>
+
+<p>"Now catch," said their father, as he started aside and flung a sixpence
+to each.</p>
+
+<p>Of course they did not catch, for little girls have a strange
+propensity for turning just the wrong way on such occasions; but the
+bright new sixpences were none the duller for their fall, and called
+forth none the less admiration from their proud owners.</p>
+
+<p>Many were the calculations which passed through those curly heads during
+breakfast-time as to what a sixpence could buy; and it was with many
+bright visions that they darted away to be dressed to go into the town
+with their mother.</p>
+
+<p>It was New-year's day; but there was no snow, no bitter cold wind, no
+beggars shivering in their scanty clothing, none of the scenes of
+poverty which those accustomed only to an English winter might expect to
+cast a gloom over the enjoyment of the day. It was a bright sunny
+morning, every leaf sparkling with dew-drops; groups of neatly-dressed
+people were to be seen flocking in from the country in every direction;
+and though the air was fresh enough to incline them to walk briskly
+along, their hands were not hidden away in muffs and coat-pockets, but
+were ready for the friendly shake which, with "all the good wishes of
+the season," awaited them at every step.</p>
+
+<p>Mrs. Campbell and her little girls, after many a greeting of this kind,
+found their way into the town at last; and the children soon forgot
+everything in the twelfth-cakes which adorned the pastry-cooks' windows,
+till the sixpence, which was tightly clasped in each little hand,
+recalled them to their errand, and they joined the busy crowd in the
+toy-shop. Who does not know what it is to take a child into these abodes
+of Noah's arks, cats, dogs, mice, and dolls, and all that is so
+charming? How each toy is seized on in its turn, to be relinquished in a
+moment for one more beautiful! It was no easy task that Mrs. Campbell
+had undertaken; but at last, in a moment of ecstasy over two blue-eyed
+dolls, the sixpences were paid, and the young purchasers drawn away from
+further temptation. And we, too, must wish them good-by, with the hope
+that the next new year may find them bright and happy still, and that
+before many more have passed over them they will have learnt a wiser and
+a better way of spending their father's gift; a way in which their
+sixpence, though it be but a sixpence, will be returned in tenfold
+blessings on their heads.</p>
+
+<p>It is with one of the little pieces of silver which have just rung in
+the till that we have to do. It had lain there for about two hours, the
+same scenes going on around it which we have witnessed with its owner of
+the morning, when a tall moustachioed young man entered the shop, which
+was not exclusively devoted to toys, and asked to be shown some gold
+pencil-cases. His choice was soon made, the money paid, and our friend
+the Sixpence received in change. Ah, Sixpence! what sort of hands have
+you fallen into now? We have undertaken to follow your fortunes for a
+time, and therefore, uncomfortable as our quarters may be, we must take
+up our abode with you in Captain Crawford's waistcoat-pocket, and go
+where he pleases to lead us. Up High Street and Smith Street to Grange
+Road, where we mount and away from houses and streets and the
+fashionable world; among the fields and hedges, just decking themselves
+with Daisies and Celandines, and every now and then, at the top of the
+many little hills which the road crosses, comes a peep of the bright
+blue sea, from which, go where we will, we can never get very far away
+in Guernsey. After a short ride, Captain Crawford pulled up his horse,
+and giving it into the care of a boy who answered his call, he walked
+down an avenue to a pretty rose-covered house, which he entered, and
+made his way to the drawing-room.</p>
+
+<p>"Well, my little one, what have you been about all the morning?" was his
+greeting as he opened the door to a delicate-looking girl who lay on the
+sofa.</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, Edward!" she answered, "I was just wishing for you. I feel rather
+better than usual to-day, and mamma says I may take a turn in the
+garden. I was only waiting for your arm. Will you ring for my bonnet?"</p>
+
+<p>"Look, here is a New-year's gift for you, Ellen," said her brother,
+taking the gold pencil-case out of his pocket and hanging it on her
+chain.</p>
+
+<p>"Oh! thanks&mdash;thanks, Edward!" she said warmly, as she pulled his head
+down to her, and threw her arms round his neck; "My own brother, how
+good of you! this is just what I wanted."</p>
+
+<p>"I never yet knew you have anything which was not <i>just</i> what you
+wanted, Ellen. Is there anything in the world you wish for now?"</p>
+
+<p>"No, I am very happy. You none of you give me an opportunity of wishing
+for anything; as soon as I wish, I have it. You all spoil me."</p>
+
+<p>"I know what I wish," said her brother; "and that is, that I had your
+secret of finding everything so very comfortable. What is it, little
+one?"</p>
+
+<p>He had seated himself by her side, and was stroking the hair back from
+her forehead, while she lay in quiet enjoyment of his gentle touch; but
+on hearing his last question she raised her large dark eyes, fixing them
+earnestly on his face for one moment, but without speaking. She was soon
+ready for her walk, and, leaning on her brother's arm, let him half
+carry half lead her out.</p>
+
+<p>"Let us go to the gate, Edward," she said, when they reached the door;
+"the children will be coming out of school, and I may see some of my
+little friends."</p>
+
+<p>They walked very slowly, and neither spoke for a few moments, till Ellen
+said, in rather a hurried tone, "I was wrong just now when I told you I
+never wished for anything; there is one thing I want very much, and
+which you can never give me."</p>
+
+<p>"What is it?" asked her brother.</p>
+
+<p>"To be able to live over again the twenty years of health which have
+just passed from me, and to have again all the money I spent in that
+time."</p>
+
+<p>"Why, my dear Ellen," said Captain Crawford gaily, "you are the last
+person in the world to say anything of the sort. I am sure the greatest
+pleasure of your days of health was to take puddings and sixpences to
+old women; and if that is not a satisfactory way of spending one's time
+and money, I don't know what is. But really, Ellen," he said, more
+seriously, as he saw her grave face, "I do not see what reason you have
+to blame yourself, after such a life as yours has been. I should have
+thought the recollection of it would now have been your greatest
+comfort; and that, after taking care of others for so long, you might
+enjoy being taken care of yourself now. But, my little one! what is the
+matter?"</p>
+
+<p>Ellen had stopped, and, with her head resting on his shoulder, was
+sobbing violently.</p>
+
+<p>"Edward, don't!" she said, as soon as she could command herself; "I
+can't bear it! Think of the handsome allowance papa makes me, and how
+little of it has been well spent! And then, what was given away did not
+do a quarter of the good it might have done, because I did not go and
+give it myself, and kind words with it, which are far more comforting
+than food or money. And if you will believe me, Edward, extravagance
+has become such a habit with me, that though I resolved last quarter to
+be economical and save up something for the new church, I had hardly
+anything left at the end of it. It is true I did teach at the school a
+little, and visit a few people, but what is that compared to what I
+ought to have done?"</p>
+
+<p>By this time they had reached the gate, and Ellen, drying her tears, was
+soon talking almost merrily with the children, who ran up eagerly at the
+sight of their former teacher. Edward had forgotten the little Guernsey
+French he had once known, and stood by, glad to see his favourite sister
+so happy; but wondering what pleasure she could find in talking to a set
+of dirty little things like those. Captain Crawford called them dirty,
+because most officers in her Majesty's service, if they think on the
+subject at all, think rags and dirtiness necessary attendants on poor
+children; but if Captain Crawford had looked, he would have seen as
+clean and <i>neat</i> a flock of little ones around his sister as the United
+Kingdom could produce.</p>
+
+<p>Just as they were going to return to the house a man passed by, and
+touched his hat to Miss Crawford in the somewhat off-hand manner which
+(we must confess it) our fellow-countrymen usually employ. Ellen stopped
+a moment to make some inquiries of him about his wife and children, and
+then turned home-wards, saying, as she took her brother's arm,&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>"I dare say a good dinner would do that man's daughter a world of good;
+she is ill, and they are very poor: but then there is no way of sending
+it."</p>
+
+<p>"Where do they live?" asked Edward.</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, it is half-an-hour's walk: they live close to the beach."</p>
+
+<p>"I'll take it," said he; and added, by way of apology, "I should rather
+like a walk before dinner."</p>
+
+<p>A happy gleam passed over Ellen's face, but she only said,&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>"Thank you, Edward," and gave him one very bright look, when he left her
+on her sofa and went to fetch some meat for the sick girl.</p>
+
+<p>It was with feelings of amusement, rather than anything else, that
+Edward set out on what was probably the first errand of mercy he had
+ever undertaken. He had done it merely to please his sister, and could
+not help laughing at the idea of what some of his brother-officers would
+say if they could see Crawford of the &mdash;&mdash; Regiment carrying food to a
+sick girl. But his conversation with Ellen soon returned to his mind,
+and the thought struck him, "If my good, unselfish little sister, thinks
+her time and money have been wasted, what have mine been? According to
+her, the sixpence which I have occasionally thrown to a beggar to quiet
+my conscience was only half charity, because I did not add 'kind words,'
+as she would say. But I wonder what people would say if I were to
+inquire after the birth, parentage, and education of every
+street-sweeper I came across? No, my vocation is to defend my Queen and
+country, and not to act the charitable." Something whispered, "Cannot
+you do both?" but Edward would not listen, and soon arrived at his
+destination. The door was opened by the sick girl's mother, who, with
+her "<i>Bon jour, monsieur! Entrez, s'il vous plait</i>," took Edward rather
+by surprise, and would by no means hear of receiving the gift outside
+the door. This was more than he had bargained for; he had come on a
+message from Ellen, not for a charitable visit on her own account: but
+there was no alternative, and go in he must. The woman spoke a little
+English; and while she poured forth her gratitude to Miss Crawford,
+together with a long account of her daughter's maladies, saying so much
+in one breath that it became a question whether she would ever breathe
+again, Captain Crawford looked at the sick girl lying pale and thin by
+the fire; and when he thought how miserable her lot was compared even
+with his sister's, whose sufferings were soothed by all that affection
+could suggest or that money could buy, his heart&mdash;for he had a heart,
+and a warm one too&mdash;was touched, and his hand went to the waistcoat
+pocket where the sixpence had been deposited in the morning. He was
+disappointed to find so little there, and wondered whether it was worth
+giving her. "If Ellen were here to add some of her 'kind words,'" he
+thought, it might do very well; "however, I'll try."</p>
+
+<p>Next time Mrs. Tourtel stopped to take breath he went and stood by the
+poor girl, and said,&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>"Miss Crawford is ill too and cannot come to see you, but she often
+thinks of you. Perhaps this will buy you a small loaf of white bread, as
+your mother says you cannot eat brown."</p>
+
+<p>She only said, "<i>Mercie, monsieur</i>;" but the bright colour, which spread
+itself over her pale face at the mention of Ellen's thought of her, told
+Edward that he had said the right thing; and with a gentle "Good-by, I
+hope you will soon be better," he left the cottage. He walked fast with
+his head bent, as if to hide his face; but we must run after him, and
+have a peep at it. He is smiling, and&mdash;can it be?&mdash;he is blushing!
+Captain Crawford, who never turned pale before the Russians at Alma or
+Inkermann, is now blushing scarlet before his own approving conscience
+and the gratitude of a sick girl. The smile and blush were not gone when
+he reached home, and Ellen saw both and smiled too, but wisely said
+nothing. The ice on Edward's heart was broken; a few "kind words" had
+flowed out and melted it. He went to sleep that night, and dreamed that
+angels were saying "kind words" to him; Ellen went to sleep, too, and
+dreamed of her brother reading the Bible to the dying on a battle-field;
+and the sick girl lay awake all night, thinking how good it was of Miss
+Crawford to think of her, and how good of the Captain to tell her so.</p>
+
+<p>The Sixpence had done a good day's work; had a shilling been in its
+place, it would probably have failed in accomplishing it; and Captain
+Crawford, thinking money the best way to the heart of the poor, would
+never have tasted the joy of soothing sad hearts by kindness. Alas!
+little Sixpence, that you who have been such a blessing to-day, should
+become a curse to-morrow; that you who have gone forth on errands of
+mercy to-day, should dwell in scenes of drunkenness and theft to-morrow!</p>
+
+<p>Early next morning Mrs. Tourtel went to market, and left the Sixpence
+at a baker's shop in payment for a white loaf for her daughter. There it
+spent the day&mdash;a quiet day&mdash;broken by few events. It might have seen the
+fresh bread taken out of the oven, and packed in the cart which waited
+at the door to receive it; and it might have seen many people bustle in
+and out of the shop, from the little child to buy a penny loaf, to the
+gentleman's housekeeper to pay the week's bill; but it remained
+undisturbed till the shutters were taken down on the following morning,
+when a man came to buy a small loaf for his breakfast, and received the
+Sixpence in change. Appearances were far more against it this time than
+they had been before. John Barker had an unshaved beard, a scowling eye,
+and a red face; his dress consisted of a blue woollen shirt, coarse blue
+trousers grimed in mud, and a low-crowned black hat; on his shoulder he
+carried a spade and pickaxe. As he walked along he was joined by others
+of an equally unprepossessing appearance, and found many more already
+assembled at the scene of their labours&mdash;the new harbour.</p>
+
+<p>The sun was not yet risen, and a mist hung over the sea, through which
+the signal-post at Castle Cornet, and the masts of the vessels in the
+roads, were the only objects visible; but there was a faint red streak
+in the sky, which grew brighter and brighter every moment, till the
+sunrise gun fired; and then the mist changed into a golden veil, which
+floated insensibly away, leaving every geranium-leaf outside the windows
+white with hoar-frost, just to tantalise the townsfolk more distant
+islands became just visible, mingling the blue of the sea and the violet
+of the sky so mysteriously in their delicate colouring, that they were
+scarcely distinguishable from either. And then the carts began to roll
+along the quay, and work commenced on board the ships in the harbour,
+and the sailors' cry as they hoisted the sails, mingled with the
+rattling of chains and the creaking of the cranes outside the stores. At
+about nine o'clock up ran the ball at the signal-post, which announced
+the approach of the mail-boat, and as she steamed behind the Castle, and
+anchored in the roads, there were hasty embraces and shakes of the hand
+on the pier, and the passengers were rowed out to embark. A few minutes,
+and the tinkling of a bell was heard from the shore; another&mdash;one more;
+her wheels were turning, she was off for Southampton, and the passengers
+from Jersey were landing at the quay.</p>
+
+<p>All this, and much more, might John Barker have seen, and probably he
+did see it, but found nothing beautiful or exciting in it. He did not
+hold his breath as that cutter approached and ran between the
+pier-heads, her sail dipping in the wave which bore her in. He saw it a
+dozen times that day, and had seen it a hundred times before, but never
+cared to see it again. He worked sullenly on, exchanging few words with
+his fellow-labourers, till the twilight compelled them to shoulder their
+tools; and they then made their way, alas! to the many public-houses
+near, and one of them we must enter with John Barker, and see the
+Sixpence, that little messenger of good&mdash;that talent committed to his
+care&mdash;far worse than wasted by its responsible owner. Happily, the
+payment was not long delayed, and glad shall we be to hide our eyes and
+stop our ears from all that goes on without in the till with our little
+friend.</p>
+
+<p>It is about midnight, the noisy guests are gone, the people of the house
+are in bed, and we may now venture forth from our hiding-place to look
+through the chink in the door. It is a clear frosty night. The moon,
+just rising, is brightly reflected in the water. The stars are looking
+silently down on the sleeping town. Castle Cornet rises gloomily out of
+the sea. The moonlit sky, which shows us its outline only, leaves much
+to the imagination. We may fancy it a frowning fortress of modern days;
+or we may go back two hundred years, and think we see the ruin which
+told of its nine-years' siege. But we would rather think of Castle
+Cornet as we know it now, with its old keep standing as a monument of
+bygone days; or better still, we would thank the rising moon for veiling
+it in such solemn mystery, and would let our fancy share the rest which
+seems to pervade all around, while we enjoy the perfect stillness. There
+is not a sound, except the ripple of the water. Houses, streets, ships,
+men, women, and children, all seem resting peacefully in the silent
+night. But, hark! there was a sound of cracking from the window! Again
+and again we hear it, and whispering too outside. A few moments more,
+and the window is opened, and two men have crept in. They are some of
+the guests of the evening come to recover thus what they and their
+companions have wasted here to-night, that they may have it to waste
+once more. The till was quickly rifled, and at a slight noise overhead
+the thieves beat a precipitate retreat, and, in their haste, dropped our
+Sixpence in the street outside. Happy little Sixpence! to have escaped
+such hands; better to lie on the cold, hard pavement, curtained by the
+freezing air, than stay to be used as the fruits of theft invariably
+are.</p>
+
+<p>It was only just light when a little girl, whose rosy cheeks told that
+the country air had kissed them that morning, passed by with a basket on
+her arm nearly as big as herself. Her bright eyes soon spied the little
+piece of money, and with a dart she caught it up; but, like an honest
+girl, looked round to see if any one had dropped it. There was nobody
+near but a dirty, good-tempered-looking coalheaver, who, seeing her
+perplexity, said, "It must have been there all night, for nobody but me
+has passed this morning; so you may keep it, if you like." Quite
+content, she tripped away with her basket to join her mother in the
+market, and tell of her good fortune.</p>
+
+<p>Being a wise little maiden, Mary Falla did not spend her money that day,
+but took it home all safe and sound, to gain time for consideration on
+so important a subject. No selfish thoughts mingled with her
+calculations, and therefore she very soon came to the decision that it
+should go towards a pair of stockings for her grandmother; and happy in
+the hope of giving pleasure, she only longed for the accumulation of a
+little store sufficient to buy the necessary materials, and enable her
+to begin her work. But even sixpences are not to be picked up every day,
+and when a month had passed, only one penny had been added to the fund.
+Just at this time there was a sermon one Sunday morning for the same new
+church of which Miss Crawford had spoken to her brother. Mrs. Falla was
+one of the few who were to be found regularly in their places in
+church; and Mary, who was always with her mother, heard the sermon. We
+cannot boast of our little heroine that she always listened to the
+sermon; sometimes she did not understand it, sometimes she did not find
+it interesting; but this sermon she did find interesting, and liked very
+much, for it was about a church which she saw every day of her life; and
+it told how much the church was wanted by sick and old people who could
+not reach the parish church; and Mary knew she liked to go to church,
+and was very sorry for her old grandmother, and many others whom she had
+heard regret the distance. As they walked home she seemed to have
+something very interesting to think about, for she dropped behind, and
+kept her eyes fixed on the ground in a manner most unusual with this
+merry little maiden; at last, however, she settled the question to her
+own satisfaction, and ran up to her mother,&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>"<i>Ma m&egrave;re</i>, don't you think I had better give my sixpence to the new
+church? Grandmother would rather have a church near to go to, than a
+pair of stockings next winter, I'm sure; and it would do good to so many
+other people besides."</p>
+
+<p>"As you like, <i>ma ch&egrave;re</i>," answered her mother: "it is your own money."</p>
+
+<p>Not many days after this, there was a knock at the door after Mary had
+returned from school, and Captain Crawford entered, now no stranger in
+the cottages round, for the last few weeks had worked a wonderful change
+in this respect. The first time he did a kindness to the poor, it was
+because he could not help it; the second time it was because he had
+found it pleasant; but the third time there was a shade of another
+motive mingling with it. Ellen had told him why she was always happy;
+she had told him where he might learn the way to be happy too better
+than she could teach him. He had taken her advice, had read the Bible,
+and now was humbly endeavouring to obey its commands; and in conformity
+to his sister's entreaty, not to misspend his days of health, scarcely a
+day was now permitted to pass without his doing something for the good
+of his fellow-creatures. He always told the poor that he was come on a
+message from his sister, lest they should be inclined to be grateful to
+him, and make him blush, as the sick girl had done. Some questioned,
+however, whether Miss Crawford told him always to add a franc or two to
+the gift which she sent; or whether Miss Crawford dictated to him all
+the "kind words" which now made him so welcome a visitor; and when the
+old blind man complained of having no one to read to him, and Captain
+Crawford took the Bible and read him "<i>deux superbes chapitres</i>," he was
+quite sure that Miss Crawford had nothing at all to do with it.</p>
+
+<p>His present visit to Mary's grandmother was to tell her that ten pounds
+had been collected the Sunday before for the new church; and that as
+some handsome contributions had been since received, he hoped she would
+soon see it finished. Mary ran away as soon as she had let him in, and
+soon came back with cheeks as red as fire, eyes cast down, and something
+clasped very tight in her hand, looking altogether much more like a
+thief than the good, honest little Mary that she was. But when Captain
+Crawford got up to go away, she went to him, and as he stooped to hear
+what she had to say, she repeated very quick, in a very low voice, the
+little speech she had prepared in her best English: "Please to give dat
+to Miss Crawford, to go for the new church dat's being builded." Happy
+Mary! how full of love that little heart was! how it rejoiced in giving
+pleasure! and how she did wish that she was rich, that she might make
+everybody comfortable!</p>
+
+<p>"Here is a contribution to the church, my little one," said Edward, when
+he reached home, "which I think you will agree with me is worth more
+than all the five-pound notes we have received. Sixpence from Mary
+Falla!"</p>
+
+<p>"Dear little Mary! Put it into the church-bag, Edward. If our church
+could be all built with such sixpences as those&mdash;"</p>
+
+<p>And in the church-bag we must leave the Sixpence, resting a little while
+before it goes forth again on its errands of joy and sorrow, of blessing
+and cursing.</p>
+
+<p>There was a little stone in the church-tower far more precious than all
+the rest. It was not a cut stone; it did not sparkle in the bright sun
+which shone on the consecration-day; none of the colours of the ruby,
+emerald, or amethyst, beamed from it; it was a richer gem than they&mdash;the
+gift of a willing heart.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr />
+<h3>London:&mdash;Printed by <span class="smcap">G. Barclay</span>, Castle St. Leicester Sq.</h3>
+
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+ADVENTURES OF A SIXPENCE IN GUERNSEY.
+
+BY
+
+A NATIVE.
+
+SEELEY, JACKSON, AND HALLIDAY, FLEET STREET;
+
+AND B. SEELEY, HANOVER STREET.
+
+LONDON. MDCCCLVII.
+
+Printed by G. BARCLAY, Castle St. Leicester Sq.
+
+[Illustration: Frontispiece]
+
+
+
+
+ADVENTURES OF A SIXPENCE IN GUERNSEY.
+
+
+The breakfast was ready laid on the table, and a gentleman was standing
+by the fire waiting for the rest of the family, when the door burst
+open, and two little girls ran in.
+
+"A happy new year, papa!--a happy new year!" shouted each as she was
+caught up to be kissed, and found herself on the floor once more after a
+sudden whirl to the ceiling.
+
+"Now catch," said their father, as he started aside and flung a sixpence
+to each.
+
+Of course they did not catch, for little girls have a strange
+propensity for turning just the wrong way on such occasions; but the
+bright new sixpences were none the duller for their fall, and called
+forth none the less admiration from their proud owners.
+
+Many were the calculations which passed through those curly heads during
+breakfast-time as to what a sixpence could buy; and it was with many
+bright visions that they darted away to be dressed to go into the town
+with their mother.
+
+It was New-year's day; but there was no snow, no bitter cold wind, no
+beggars shivering in their scanty clothing, none of the scenes of
+poverty which those accustomed only to an English winter might expect to
+cast a gloom over the enjoyment of the day. It was a bright sunny
+morning, every leaf sparkling with dew-drops; groups of neatly-dressed
+people were to be seen flocking in from the country in every direction;
+and though the air was fresh enough to incline them to walk briskly
+along, their hands were not hidden away in muffs and coat-pockets, but
+were ready for the friendly shake which, with "all the good wishes of
+the season," awaited them at every step.
+
+Mrs. Campbell and her little girls, after many a greeting of this kind,
+found their way into the town at last; and the children soon forgot
+everything in the twelfth-cakes which adorned the pastry-cooks' windows,
+till the sixpence, which was tightly clasped in each little hand,
+recalled them to their errand, and they joined the busy crowd in the
+toy-shop. Who does not know what it is to take a child into these abodes
+of Noah's arks, cats, dogs, mice, and dolls, and all that is so
+charming? How each toy is seized on in its turn, to be relinquished in a
+moment for one more beautiful! It was no easy task that Mrs. Campbell
+had undertaken; but at last, in a moment of ecstasy over two blue-eyed
+dolls, the sixpences were paid, and the young purchasers drawn away from
+further temptation. And we, too, must wish them good-by, with the hope
+that the next new year may find them bright and happy still, and that
+before many more have passed over them they will have learnt a wiser and
+a better way of spending their father's gift; a way in which their
+sixpence, though it be but a sixpence, will be returned in tenfold
+blessings on their heads.
+
+It is with one of the little pieces of silver which have just rung in
+the till that we have to do. It had lain there for about two hours, the
+same scenes going on around it which we have witnessed with its owner of
+the morning, when a tall moustachioed young man entered the shop, which
+was not exclusively devoted to toys, and asked to be shown some gold
+pencil-cases. His choice was soon made, the money paid, and our friend
+the Sixpence received in change. Ah, Sixpence! what sort of hands have
+you fallen into now? We have undertaken to follow your fortunes for a
+time, and therefore, uncomfortable as our quarters may be, we must take
+up our abode with you in Captain Crawford's waistcoat-pocket, and go
+where he pleases to lead us. Up High Street and Smith Street to Grange
+Road, where we mount and away from houses and streets and the
+fashionable world; among the fields and hedges, just decking themselves
+with Daisies and Celandines, and every now and then, at the top of the
+many little hills which the road crosses, comes a peep of the bright
+blue sea, from which, go where we will, we can never get very far away
+in Guernsey. After a short ride, Captain Crawford pulled up his horse,
+and giving it into the care of a boy who answered his call, he walked
+down an avenue to a pretty rose-covered house, which he entered, and
+made his way to the drawing-room.
+
+"Well, my little one, what have you been about all the morning?" was his
+greeting as he opened the door to a delicate-looking girl who lay on the
+sofa.
+
+"Oh, Edward!" she answered, "I was just wishing for you. I feel rather
+better than usual to-day, and mamma says I may take a turn in the
+garden. I was only waiting for your arm. Will you ring for my bonnet?"
+
+"Look, here is a New-year's gift for you, Ellen," said her brother,
+taking the gold pencil-case out of his pocket and hanging it on her
+chain.
+
+"Oh! thanks--thanks, Edward!" she said warmly, as she pulled his head
+down to her, and threw her arms round his neck; "My own brother, how
+good of you! this is just what I wanted."
+
+"I never yet knew you have anything which was not _just_ what you
+wanted, Ellen. Is there anything in the world you wish for now?"
+
+"No, I am very happy. You none of you give me an opportunity of wishing
+for anything; as soon as I wish, I have it. You all spoil me."
+
+"I know what I wish," said her brother; "and that is, that I had your
+secret of finding everything so very comfortable. What is it, little
+one?"
+
+He had seated himself by her side, and was stroking the hair back from
+her forehead, while she lay in quiet enjoyment of his gentle touch; but
+on hearing his last question she raised her large dark eyes, fixing them
+earnestly on his face for one moment, but without speaking. She was soon
+ready for her walk, and, leaning on her brother's arm, let him half
+carry half lead her out.
+
+"Let us go to the gate, Edward," she said, when they reached the door;
+"the children will be coming out of school, and I may see some of my
+little friends."
+
+They walked very slowly, and neither spoke for a few moments, till Ellen
+said, in rather a hurried tone, "I was wrong just now when I told you I
+never wished for anything; there is one thing I want very much, and
+which you can never give me."
+
+"What is it?" asked her brother.
+
+"To be able to live over again the twenty years of health which have
+just passed from me, and to have again all the money I spent in that
+time."
+
+"Why, my dear Ellen," said Captain Crawford gaily, "you are the last
+person in the world to say anything of the sort. I am sure the greatest
+pleasure of your days of health was to take puddings and sixpences to
+old women; and if that is not a satisfactory way of spending one's time
+and money, I don't know what is. But really, Ellen," he said, more
+seriously, as he saw her grave face, "I do not see what reason you have
+to blame yourself, after such a life as yours has been. I should have
+thought the recollection of it would now have been your greatest
+comfort; and that, after taking care of others for so long, you might
+enjoy being taken care of yourself now. But, my little one! what is the
+matter?"
+
+Ellen had stopped, and, with her head resting on his shoulder, was
+sobbing violently.
+
+"Edward, don't!" she said, as soon as she could command herself; "I
+can't bear it! Think of the handsome allowance papa makes me, and how
+little of it has been well spent! And then, what was given away did not
+do a quarter of the good it might have done, because I did not go and
+give it myself, and kind words with it, which are far more comforting
+than food or money. And if you will believe me, Edward, extravagance
+has become such a habit with me, that though I resolved last quarter to
+be economical and save up something for the new church, I had hardly
+anything left at the end of it. It is true I did teach at the school a
+little, and visit a few people, but what is that compared to what I
+ought to have done?"
+
+By this time they had reached the gate, and Ellen, drying her tears, was
+soon talking almost merrily with the children, who ran up eagerly at the
+sight of their former teacher. Edward had forgotten the little Guernsey
+French he had once known, and stood by, glad to see his favourite sister
+so happy; but wondering what pleasure she could find in talking to a set
+of dirty little things like those. Captain Crawford called them dirty,
+because most officers in her Majesty's service, if they think on the
+subject at all, think rags and dirtiness necessary attendants on poor
+children; but if Captain Crawford had looked, he would have seen as
+clean and _neat_ a flock of little ones around his sister as the United
+Kingdom could produce.
+
+Just as they were going to return to the house a man passed by, and
+touched his hat to Miss Crawford in the somewhat off-hand manner which
+(we must confess it) our fellow-countrymen usually employ. Ellen stopped
+a moment to make some inquiries of him about his wife and children, and
+then turned home-wards, saying, as she took her brother's arm,--
+
+"I dare say a good dinner would do that man's daughter a world of good;
+she is ill, and they are very poor: but then there is no way of sending
+it."
+
+"Where do they live?" asked Edward.
+
+"Oh, it is half-an-hour's walk: they live close to the beach."
+
+"I'll take it," said he; and added, by way of apology, "I should rather
+like a walk before dinner."
+
+A happy gleam passed over Ellen's face, but she only said,--
+
+"Thank you, Edward," and gave him one very bright look, when he left her
+on her sofa and went to fetch some meat for the sick girl.
+
+It was with feelings of amusement, rather than anything else, that
+Edward set out on what was probably the first errand of mercy he had
+ever undertaken. He had done it merely to please his sister, and could
+not help laughing at the idea of what some of his brother-officers would
+say if they could see Crawford of the ---- Regiment carrying food to a
+sick girl. But his conversation with Ellen soon returned to his mind,
+and the thought struck him, "If my good, unselfish little sister, thinks
+her time and money have been wasted, what have mine been? According to
+her, the sixpence which I have occasionally thrown to a beggar to quiet
+my conscience was only half charity, because I did not add 'kind words,'
+as she would say. But I wonder what people would say if I were to
+inquire after the birth, parentage, and education of every
+street-sweeper I came across? No, my vocation is to defend my Queen and
+country, and not to act the charitable." Something whispered, "Cannot
+you do both?" but Edward would not listen, and soon arrived at his
+destination. The door was opened by the sick girl's mother, who, with
+her "_Bon jour, monsieur! Entrez, s'il vous plait_," took Edward rather
+by surprise, and would by no means hear of receiving the gift outside
+the door. This was more than he had bargained for; he had come on a
+message from Ellen, not for a charitable visit on her own account: but
+there was no alternative, and go in he must. The woman spoke a little
+English; and while she poured forth her gratitude to Miss Crawford,
+together with a long account of her daughter's maladies, saying so much
+in one breath that it became a question whether she would ever breathe
+again, Captain Crawford looked at the sick girl lying pale and thin by
+the fire; and when he thought how miserable her lot was compared even
+with his sister's, whose sufferings were soothed by all that affection
+could suggest or that money could buy, his heart--for he had a heart,
+and a warm one too--was touched, and his hand went to the waistcoat
+pocket where the sixpence had been deposited in the morning. He was
+disappointed to find so little there, and wondered whether it was worth
+giving her. "If Ellen were here to add some of her 'kind words,'" he
+thought, it might do very well; "however, I'll try."
+
+Next time Mrs. Tourtel stopped to take breath he went and stood by the
+poor girl, and said,--
+
+"Miss Crawford is ill too and cannot come to see you, but she often
+thinks of you. Perhaps this will buy you a small loaf of white bread, as
+your mother says you cannot eat brown."
+
+She only said, "_Mercie, monsieur_;" but the bright colour, which spread
+itself over her pale face at the mention of Ellen's thought of her, told
+Edward that he had said the right thing; and with a gentle "Good-by, I
+hope you will soon be better," he left the cottage. He walked fast with
+his head bent, as if to hide his face; but we must run after him, and
+have a peep at it. He is smiling, and--can it be?--he is blushing!
+Captain Crawford, who never turned pale before the Russians at Alma or
+Inkermann, is now blushing scarlet before his own approving conscience
+and the gratitude of a sick girl. The smile and blush were not gone when
+he reached home, and Ellen saw both and smiled too, but wisely said
+nothing. The ice on Edward's heart was broken; a few "kind words" had
+flowed out and melted it. He went to sleep that night, and dreamed that
+angels were saying "kind words" to him; Ellen went to sleep, too, and
+dreamed of her brother reading the Bible to the dying on a battle-field;
+and the sick girl lay awake all night, thinking how good it was of Miss
+Crawford to think of her, and how good of the Captain to tell her so.
+
+The Sixpence had done a good day's work; had a shilling been in its
+place, it would probably have failed in accomplishing it; and Captain
+Crawford, thinking money the best way to the heart of the poor, would
+never have tasted the joy of soothing sad hearts by kindness. Alas!
+little Sixpence, that you who have been such a blessing to-day, should
+become a curse to-morrow; that you who have gone forth on errands of
+mercy to-day, should dwell in scenes of drunkenness and theft to-morrow!
+
+Early next morning Mrs. Tourtel went to market, and left the Sixpence
+at a baker's shop in payment for a white loaf for her daughter. There it
+spent the day--a quiet day--broken by few events. It might have seen the
+fresh bread taken out of the oven, and packed in the cart which waited
+at the door to receive it; and it might have seen many people bustle in
+and out of the shop, from the little child to buy a penny loaf, to the
+gentleman's housekeeper to pay the week's bill; but it remained
+undisturbed till the shutters were taken down on the following morning,
+when a man came to buy a small loaf for his breakfast, and received the
+Sixpence in change. Appearances were far more against it this time than
+they had been before. John Barker had an unshaved beard, a scowling eye,
+and a red face; his dress consisted of a blue woollen shirt, coarse blue
+trousers grimed in mud, and a low-crowned black hat; on his shoulder he
+carried a spade and pickaxe. As he walked along he was joined by others
+of an equally unprepossessing appearance, and found many more already
+assembled at the scene of their labours--the new harbour.
+
+The sun was not yet risen, and a mist hung over the sea, through which
+the signal-post at Castle Cornet, and the masts of the vessels in the
+roads, were the only objects visible; but there was a faint red streak
+in the sky, which grew brighter and brighter every moment, till the
+sunrise gun fired; and then the mist changed into a golden veil, which
+floated insensibly away, leaving every geranium-leaf outside the windows
+white with hoar-frost, just to tantalise the townsfolk more distant
+islands became just visible, mingling the blue of the sea and the violet
+of the sky so mysteriously in their delicate colouring, that they were
+scarcely distinguishable from either. And then the carts began to roll
+along the quay, and work commenced on board the ships in the harbour,
+and the sailors' cry as they hoisted the sails, mingled with the
+rattling of chains and the creaking of the cranes outside the stores. At
+about nine o'clock up ran the ball at the signal-post, which announced
+the approach of the mail-boat, and as she steamed behind the Castle, and
+anchored in the roads, there were hasty embraces and shakes of the hand
+on the pier, and the passengers were rowed out to embark. A few minutes,
+and the tinkling of a bell was heard from the shore; another--one more;
+her wheels were turning, she was off for Southampton, and the passengers
+from Jersey were landing at the quay.
+
+All this, and much more, might John Barker have seen, and probably he
+did see it, but found nothing beautiful or exciting in it. He did not
+hold his breath as that cutter approached and ran between the
+pier-heads, her sail dipping in the wave which bore her in. He saw it a
+dozen times that day, and had seen it a hundred times before, but never
+cared to see it again. He worked sullenly on, exchanging few words with
+his fellow-labourers, till the twilight compelled them to shoulder their
+tools; and they then made their way, alas! to the many public-houses
+near, and one of them we must enter with John Barker, and see the
+Sixpence, that little messenger of good--that talent committed to his
+care--far worse than wasted by its responsible owner. Happily, the
+payment was not long delayed, and glad shall we be to hide our eyes and
+stop our ears from all that goes on without in the till with our little
+friend.
+
+It is about midnight, the noisy guests are gone, the people of the house
+are in bed, and we may now venture forth from our hiding-place to look
+through the chink in the door. It is a clear frosty night. The moon,
+just rising, is brightly reflected in the water. The stars are looking
+silently down on the sleeping town. Castle Cornet rises gloomily out of
+the sea. The moonlit sky, which shows us its outline only, leaves much
+to the imagination. We may fancy it a frowning fortress of modern days;
+or we may go back two hundred years, and think we see the ruin which
+told of its nine-years' siege. But we would rather think of Castle
+Cornet as we know it now, with its old keep standing as a monument of
+bygone days; or better still, we would thank the rising moon for veiling
+it in such solemn mystery, and would let our fancy share the rest which
+seems to pervade all around, while we enjoy the perfect stillness. There
+is not a sound, except the ripple of the water. Houses, streets, ships,
+men, women, and children, all seem resting peacefully in the silent
+night. But, hark! there was a sound of cracking from the window! Again
+and again we hear it, and whispering too outside. A few moments more,
+and the window is opened, and two men have crept in. They are some of
+the guests of the evening come to recover thus what they and their
+companions have wasted here to-night, that they may have it to waste
+once more. The till was quickly rifled, and at a slight noise overhead
+the thieves beat a precipitate retreat, and, in their haste, dropped our
+Sixpence in the street outside. Happy little Sixpence! to have escaped
+such hands; better to lie on the cold, hard pavement, curtained by the
+freezing air, than stay to be used as the fruits of theft invariably
+are.
+
+It was only just light when a little girl, whose rosy cheeks told that
+the country air had kissed them that morning, passed by with a basket on
+her arm nearly as big as herself. Her bright eyes soon spied the little
+piece of money, and with a dart she caught it up; but, like an honest
+girl, looked round to see if any one had dropped it. There was nobody
+near but a dirty, good-tempered-looking coalheaver, who, seeing her
+perplexity, said, "It must have been there all night, for nobody but me
+has passed this morning; so you may keep it, if you like." Quite
+content, she tripped away with her basket to join her mother in the
+market, and tell of her good fortune.
+
+Being a wise little maiden, Mary Falla did not spend her money that day,
+but took it home all safe and sound, to gain time for consideration on
+so important a subject. No selfish thoughts mingled with her
+calculations, and therefore she very soon came to the decision that it
+should go towards a pair of stockings for her grandmother; and happy in
+the hope of giving pleasure, she only longed for the accumulation of a
+little store sufficient to buy the necessary materials, and enable her
+to begin her work. But even sixpences are not to be picked up every day,
+and when a month had passed, only one penny had been added to the fund.
+Just at this time there was a sermon one Sunday morning for the same new
+church of which Miss Crawford had spoken to her brother. Mrs. Falla was
+one of the few who were to be found regularly in their places in
+church; and Mary, who was always with her mother, heard the sermon. We
+cannot boast of our little heroine that she always listened to the
+sermon; sometimes she did not understand it, sometimes she did not find
+it interesting; but this sermon she did find interesting, and liked very
+much, for it was about a church which she saw every day of her life; and
+it told how much the church was wanted by sick and old people who could
+not reach the parish church; and Mary knew she liked to go to church,
+and was very sorry for her old grandmother, and many others whom she had
+heard regret the distance. As they walked home she seemed to have
+something very interesting to think about, for she dropped behind, and
+kept her eyes fixed on the ground in a manner most unusual with this
+merry little maiden; at last, however, she settled the question to her
+own satisfaction, and ran up to her mother,--
+
+"_Ma mere_, don't you think I had better give my sixpence to the new
+church? Grandmother would rather have a church near to go to, than a
+pair of stockings next winter, I'm sure; and it would do good to so many
+other people besides."
+
+"As you like, _ma chere_," answered her mother: "it is your own money."
+
+Not many days after this, there was a knock at the door after Mary had
+returned from school, and Captain Crawford entered, now no stranger in
+the cottages round, for the last few weeks had worked a wonderful change
+in this respect. The first time he did a kindness to the poor, it was
+because he could not help it; the second time it was because he had
+found it pleasant; but the third time there was a shade of another
+motive mingling with it. Ellen had told him why she was always happy;
+she had told him where he might learn the way to be happy too better
+than she could teach him. He had taken her advice, had read the Bible,
+and now was humbly endeavouring to obey its commands; and in conformity
+to his sister's entreaty, not to misspend his days of health, scarcely a
+day was now permitted to pass without his doing something for the good
+of his fellow-creatures. He always told the poor that he was come on a
+message from his sister, lest they should be inclined to be grateful to
+him, and make him blush, as the sick girl had done. Some questioned,
+however, whether Miss Crawford told him always to add a franc or two to
+the gift which she sent; or whether Miss Crawford dictated to him all
+the "kind words" which now made him so welcome a visitor; and when the
+old blind man complained of having no one to read to him, and Captain
+Crawford took the Bible and read him "_deux superbes chapitres_," he was
+quite sure that Miss Crawford had nothing at all to do with it.
+
+His present visit to Mary's grandmother was to tell her that ten pounds
+had been collected the Sunday before for the new church; and that as
+some handsome contributions had been since received, he hoped she would
+soon see it finished. Mary ran away as soon as she had let him in, and
+soon came back with cheeks as red as fire, eyes cast down, and something
+clasped very tight in her hand, looking altogether much more like a
+thief than the good, honest little Mary that she was. But when Captain
+Crawford got up to go away, she went to him, and as he stooped to hear
+what she had to say, she repeated very quick, in a very low voice, the
+little speech she had prepared in her best English: "Please to give dat
+to Miss Crawford, to go for the new church dat's being builded." Happy
+Mary! how full of love that little heart was! how it rejoiced in giving
+pleasure! and how she did wish that she was rich, that she might make
+everybody comfortable!
+
+"Here is a contribution to the church, my little one," said Edward, when
+he reached home, "which I think you will agree with me is worth more
+than all the five-pound notes we have received. Sixpence from Mary
+Falla!"
+
+"Dear little Mary! Put it into the church-bag, Edward. If our church
+could be all built with such sixpences as those--"
+
+And in the church-bag we must leave the Sixpence, resting a little while
+before it goes forth again on its errands of joy and sorrow, of blessing
+and cursing.
+
+There was a little stone in the church-tower far more precious than all
+the rest. It was not a cut stone; it did not sparkle in the bright sun
+which shone on the consecration-day; none of the colours of the ruby,
+emerald, or amethyst, beamed from it; it was a richer gem than they--the
+gift of a willing heart.
+
+
+
+
+London:--Printed by G. BARCLAY, Castle St. Leicester Sq.
+
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