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228 ALL L\ A GARDEN FAIR.
the liidies proceeded to speculate on the trial,
the verdict, and the sentence. Should the
Greek die—but what a thousand pities that
a man can no longer go in public, amid the
acclamations of his friends, to his own hanging !
'I wonder,' said Will, Mf this is the Heart
of the people ? '
They reported discouragement.
' Go on,' said Hector, ' you will find, some
time or other, what you are looking for. Go
on.'
He meant that Allen would fnid what he
wished him to find. They went on ; they
pursued that tramp week after week, in fine
weather and foul, till the monotony of the
streets seemed intolerable.
'They are brought up in this,' said Will
one day, ' they don't feel it as we do, who have
had the Forest. Do you begin to iniderstand
how tliey must look on life ? Do you begin to
see why they have no religion ?
' What do you mean, Will?'
'I mean,' said Will, Mhat without some