At Nightfall [pp. 393]

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me against my will-in reality, created by health only, but also asked his advice on all
Your Highness yourself, in that you appointed important questions of State. Meanwhile,
me such a mysterious kind of doctor4n-ordi- the doctor laid aside his medical studies
nary." altogether, and in all secrecy endeavored to
The Prince was secretly pleased with the make himself acquainted with the politics
doctor's honest, sensible character, for he and affairs of State; in which direction, and
now saw that he had not been deceived in for the use of a small principality, there
his man. But he would not again act rash- was not so much required as in our day.
ly. He, therefore, bade him return home After the lapse of a year, the doctor was
for the present, with reassuring words, and named, to the great and final astonishment
searched farther into the matter. In spite of the country, Minister of the Cabinet to
of all the calumny which now fell like hail the Prince, and as such he also married
upon the fallen favorite, Casimir found more Fraulein Lehberg. The Prince was still much
and more the truth of the doctor's story attached to the charming young lady, b~t
co~rmed. After the lapse of a few days, not with his original impetuous passion.
therefore, he again summoned him to the The people would not believe, for a long
palace, and told him that he had found him time, that Doctor Miller had again been reto be a rare man in five things. In the first ceived into the good graces of the Prince;
place, he was modest and full of self-knowl- and when it was finally proven in the writedge; secondly, discreet, and thirdly, truth- ten decree of the Minister of the Cabinet,
ful; fourthly, he did not desire to exercise they said that outwardly the doctor had cerany influence; and flfthly, with all this, he tainly received satisfaction, but that he nevwas as full of mother wit as the oldest diplo- ertheless did no more possess such unboundmate: that, as the world had made him his ed influence and friendship with the Prince as
confidant when he was not, henceforth he before his fall. Miller was wi~e enough to
should be so in yeality, now that the world leave the country in this opinion, and was
believed him to have fallen into disgrace. much ]ess besieged and envied, when he
He also commanded the doctor to resume really stood in close confidence with the
his morning visits; but did not thereafter en- Prince, than at the time when people merely
quire about the weather and the state of his attributed influence to him.
A. A. Sargent.
AT NIGHTFALL
"THE day is dying," so we sadly say,
Feeling the gloom and chill of coming night,
And watch with wistful eyes the fading light.
Thus we forget, seeing our world grow gray,
That somewhere there is always fullest day, That still the sun is shining warm and bright
And filling men with gladness. To our sight
The earth is dark, because she turns away,
Making herself the night, that else were noon.
And yet we know that there shall come a time
When all our bonds to earth shall be undone,
Then, swifter-winged than morning, w~ shall soon
Take our glad flight to gain some happy clime
Where night is banished by the eternal sun.
Chas. S. Greene.