We are conducted out through the garden, along gravel walks, across the well-trimmed lawn; and before a high iron gate, walled in on both sides with massive masonry, the old soldier stops, and removes his cap.  Standing with heads uncovered, we are told that within rests the dust of Madame De Stael, her parents, her children, and her children’s children—­four generations in all.

The steamer whistles at the wharf as if to bring us back from dream and mold and death, and we hasten away, walking needlessly fast, looking back furtively to see if grim spectral shapes are following after.  None is seen, but we do not breathe freely until aboard the steamer and two short whistles are heard, and the order is given to cast off.  We push off slowly from the stone pier, and all is safe.

ELIZABETH FRY

    When thee builds a prison, thee had better build with the thought
    ever in thy mind that thee and thy children may occupy the cells.
    —­Report on Paris Prisons, Addressed to the King of France

[Illustration:  Elizabeth Fry]

The Mennonite, Dunkard, Shaker, Oneida Communist, Mormon and Quaker are all one people, varying only according to environment.

They are all Come-Outers.

They turn to plain clothes, hard work, religious thought, eschewing the pomps and vanities of the world—­all for the same reasons.  Scratch any one of them and you will find the true type.  The monk of the Middle Ages was the same man, his peculiarity being an extreme asceticism that caused him to count sex a mistake on the part of God.  And this same question has been a stumbling-block for ages to the type we now have under the glass.  A man who gives the question of sex too much attention is very apt either to have no wife at all or else four or five.  If a Franciscan friar of the olden time happened to glance at a clothesline on which, gaily waving in the wanton winds, was a smock-frock, he wore peas in his sandals for a month and a day.

The Shaker does not count women out because the founder of the sect was a woman, but he is a complete celibate and depends on Gentiles to populate the earth.  The Dunkard quotes Saint Paul and marries because he must, but regards romantic love as a thing of which Deity is jealous, and also a bit ashamed.  The Oneida Community clung to the same thought, and to obliterate selfishness held women in common, tracing pedigree, after the manner of ancient Sparta, through the female line, because there was no other way.  The Mormon incidentally and accidentally adopted polygamy.