with trickery and rascality in every line of his countenance, rubbing his hands in the hour of his triumph, and bustling about to make immediate preparation for availing himself of it.  And following him, also sneakily exulting, I see an object more dirty, more oily-looking, than the low attorney; it is the low attorney’s clerk.  And on such an occasion, glancing at the bench, when the judgment-seat was occupied by a judge who had not yet learned never to look as if he thought or felt anything in particular, I have discerned upon the judicial countenance an expression of disgust as deep as my own.

Pleasanter scenes come up this afternoon with the mention of summer days.  I see depths of wood, where all the light is coolly green, and the rippling brook is crystal clear.  I see vistas through pines, like cathedral vaults; the space enclosed looks on a sunshiny day almost black, and a bit of bright blue sky at the end of each is framed by the trees into the likeness of a Gothic window.  I see walls of gray rock on either side of a river, noisy and brawling in winter time, but now quiet and low.  For two or three miles the walls of rock stretch onward; there are thick woods above them, and here and there a sunny field:  masses of ivy clothe the rock in places; long sprays of ivy hang over.  I walk on in thought till I reach the opening of the glen; here a green bank slopes upward from a dark pool below, and there is a fair stretch of champaign country beyond the river; on the summit of the green bank, on this side, mouldering, grey, ivied, lonely, stand the ruins of the monastery, which has kept its place here for seven hundred years.  I see the sky-framing eastern window, its tracery gone.  There are masses of large daisies varying the sward, and the sweet fragrance of young clover is diffused through all the air.  I turn aside, and walk through lines of rose-trees in their summer perfection.  I hear the drowsy hum of the laden bees.  Suddenly it is the twilight, the long twilight of Scotland, which would sometimes serve you to read by at eleven o’clock at night.  The crimson flush has faded from the bosom of the river; if you are alone, its murmur begins to turn to a moan; the white stones of the churchyard look spectral through the trees.  I think of poor Doctor Adam, the great Scotch schoolmaster of the last century, the teacher of Sir Walter Scott, and his last words, when the shadow of death was falling deeper—­’It grows dark, hoys; you may go.’  Then, with the professional bias, I go to a certain beautiful promise which the deepening twilight seldom fails to suggest to me; a promise which tells us how the Christian’s day shall end, how the day of life might be somewhat overcast and dreary, but light should come on the darkened way at last.  ’It shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear nor dark.  But it shall be one day which shall be known to the Lord, not day, nor night; but it shall come to pass that at evening time it shall be light.’