Sera tamen respexit

        Libertas. -- Virgil.

        A Clerk I was in London gay.

        -- OKEEFE.

        IF peradventure, Reader, it    to e t of an office; to o decrepitude and silver    e; to et t to remember t as tives of co appreciate my deliverance.

        It is noy years siook my seat at transition at fourteen from t play-time, and tly-intervening vacations of sco t, nine, and sometimes ten tenda a ting- time partially reciles us to a -- doggedly tented, as wild animals in cages.

        It is true I o myself; but Sundays, admirable as titution of t very reason t adapted for days of unbending and recreation. In particular, ttendant upon a city Sunday, a reets. ternal bells depress me. ts, pictures, all ttering and endless succession of knacks aatiously displayed radesmen, s of tropolis so delig out. No book-stalls deliciously to idle over -- No busy faces to recreate templates trast to emporary relaxation from it. Noto be seen but unenances -- or    best -- of emancipated `prentices and little tradesfolks,    maid t    leave to go out,    ty of enjoying a free rollers in t day look anyt fortable.

        But besides Sundays I    Easter, and a day at Cmas, o go and air myself in my native fields of fords    indulgence; and t of its recurrence, I believe, alo me up tolerable. But ance keep touot a series of seven uneasy days, spent iless pursuit of pleasure, and a y to find out o make t of t, e of it, it ing upon ty-oedious    must intervene before succill t of its ing tion upon tivity. it it, as I ained my thraldom.

        Indepely of ttendance, I ed y for business. tter years, o suc it enance. My s flagged. I ually a dread of some crisis, to ude, I served ain all nigerrors of imaginary false entries, errors in my ats, and ty years of age, and no prospeancipatioed itself. I o my desk, as it ered into my soul.

        My felloimes rally me upon trouble legible in my tenance; but I did not kno it    monto be remembered by me, L----, tner in tly taxed me axed, I ly made fession of my infirmity, and added t I n o en me, and tter rested. A ly in my disclosure t I    myself, and icipating my o anxious one, I verily believe, in my    quitting my desk to go    mig eigo attend t, noime is surely e, I o old t t terror I le relief to me, -- ter astonis B---- , t partner, began a formal o me on torious duct during time (t I,    t? I protest I never o t on to dest on tiring at a certain time of life ( panted !) and asking me a feions as to t of my oy, of o , t I s from to t of tomed salary -- a magnifit offer! I do not knoitude, but it ood t I accepted told t I    o leave tammered out a bo just ten minutes after eig    gratitude forbids me to ceal to t munifit firm in t, and Lacy.

        Esto perpetua!

        For t day or t stunned, overoo fused to taste it sincerely. I , t I . I ion of a prisoner in tile, suddenly let loose after a forty years fi. I could scarce trust myself     of time iernity -- for it is a sort of Eternity for a man to ime all to    seemed to me t I ime on my ime, I ed up into a vast revenue; I could see no end of my possessions; I ed some steo manage my estates in time for me. And    me caution persons groive business, not lig omary employment all at once, for t. I feel it by myself, but I kno my resources are suffit; and no t giddy raptures    ion. I am in no ime    a I do not o do in tra y miles a day, to make t of time roublesome, I could read it a I do not read in t violent measure, ime my o dle-ligime, I used to    my    in by-gone ers. I    er pleasure; I let it e to me. I am like the man

        ----ts born, and o him,

        In some gree.

        "Years," you ;ed simpleton calculating upon? old us,    fifty."

        I y years, but deduct out of to ot to myself, and you ill a young fello is true time, o live it, is otime, not    of my poor days, long or s, is at least multiplied for me te years, if I stretcy. `tis a fair rule-of-three sum.

        Among trange fantasies    t of my freedom, and of    yet gone, one    a vast tract of time ervened since I quitted ting    ceive of it as an affair of yesterday. tners, and ted -- being suddenly removed from to me. to illustrate tragedy by Sir Robert h:

        ---- `t just now    away;

        I    since ime to sear;

        Aance does the same appear

        As if housand years from me.

        time takes no measure iy.

        to dissipate to go among to visit my old desk-fello I    beloate militant. Not all te restore to me t pleasant familiarity,    met t off but faintly. My old desk; t, ed to anot must be, but I could not take it kindly. D----l take me, if I could not feel some remorse -- beast, if I , -- at quitting my old peers, tners of my toils for six and ty years, t smoot been sed ter all? or    is too late to repent; and I also kno tions are a on fallacy of t my    smote me. I ly broken t us. It    least not courteous. I sime before I get quite reciled to tion. Fare not for long, fain and again I o move, alemanly! Pl----, officious to do, and to volunteer, good services ! -- and t mansion frestington of old, stately s; -excluding, pent-up offices, or to my ern fosterer of my living, fare in tion of some ;; t t, as I do from my labours, piled on t, and full as useful! My mantle I bequeath among ye.

        A fe of my first unication. At t period I ranquillity, but    reac. I boasted of a calm indeed, but it ive only. Somet flutter ; an uling sense of y; to omed lig of my apparel. I rict cellular discipline suddenly by some revolutiourned upon ter. It is natural to me to go    eleven oclo treet, and it seems to me t I ering t t very . I digress into Soo explore a book-stall. Mety years a collector. trange nor ne. I find myself before a fine picture in a m. as it ever ot is bee of Fisreet reet? Stones of old Ming-lane, o tsteps of oil-ing flints no t is Cime, and I am strangely among t o pare tion to a passing into anotime stands still in a mao me. I    all distin of season. I do not knoo be individually felt by me in its refereo t days; in its distance from, or propinquity to, t Sunday. I urday nigions. tinctly during t, affeg my appetite, spirits, & of t day, o folloe as a load upon my poor Sabbations.    c Ete?    is gone of Black Monday? All days are tself -- t unfortunate failure of a    too often proved, s fugitiveness, and over-care to get test quantity of pleasure out of it -- is melted doo a o go to c grudging tle o seem to cut out of time for everyt a sick friend. I    interrupt tion    over ation to take a days pleasure o indsor t is Lucretian pleasure to be beernal round -- and    all for? A man ever oo mucime to oo little to do. tle son, I ogetemplative. ill no kindly eartton mills? take me t lumber of a desk t down

        As loo the fiends.

        I am no longer ******, clerk to tired Leisure. I am to be met rim gardens. I am already e to be kno fad careless gesture, perambulating at no fixed paor tled purpose. I ; not to and from. tell me, a certain cum dignitate air, t s, o s fentility perceptibly. ake up a ne is to read tate of tum est. I    I came into to do. I ask o myself.
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