CAUSE AND EFFECT.-A SKETC CHI


FROM REAL LIFE.
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PART FlRSl.-IHE CAUSEs .'


"Hand me the bottle that may drain it Of
it's contents. Drink, drink and be free--free
to speak. to act, to live while we do live, and
to enjoy life whilst we have it then, my boys,
here's TO freedom!" %=5&


"Bravo! bravo!" shouted half a dozen
voices, and as many glasses were emptied
and yet again bottle was uncorked, and again
the sparkling wine was drank.


"Death to the fanaticism of the nineteenth
century--to those who would deprive us OF
our social enjoyments. Health and long life
to those brave souls, kindred to our own, who
would drink at the ruby fount, and glory in
the sparkling wine.''


whose manners were gay and agreeable to
some, as his words would indicate.


Lawrence Neville was the son Of city mer-
chant He had from earliest infancy enjoyed
the company of the rich and gay-nursed, as
it were, in the arms Of affluence, and cradled
in the lap of fashion. He knew not poverty,
and had never experienced the bitter pangs Of
adversely @:&


He had acquired such taste for wine, by
having its free use as water at his fathers
table, that to deprive him of it would be to
take from him that he most loved. a lew
years passed by, and the effect of a tree indul-
gence of wine began to be seen; and this, to-
gether with his wayward habits, induced his
father to send him into the country, that he
might, if possible, by having the temptation
removed, gradually relinquish those habits
which required no prophetic eye to determine,
would inevitably lead to sad results.


He had not long resided in the town Of
Wiehtyille, when, at his request, club was
formed, composed of few gay and pleasure
seeking young men like himself; room was
hired, and, at their expense, elegantly fur
nished. .n.


Letters from the home of Neville, at first
had some impression on him; but his nightly
meeting Of the club quite obliterated these
impressions, and in short time the letters
were neglected or read with derision.


The time to which the commencement OF
this brief narrative refers was FIVE months after
he became resident Of w. The place was