shouldn t wonder if you were right mr being now on the eve of casting off the pecuniary that have so long him said mrs and of a new career in a country where there is sufficient range for his abilities � which in my opinion is exceedingly important mr s abilities peculiarly requiring space � it seems to me that my family should the occasion by coming r ard what i could wish to see would be a meeting between mr and my family at a entertainment to be given at my family s where mr s health and prosperity being proposed by some leading member of my family mr might have an opportunity of developing his views my dear said mr with some heat it may be better for me to state distinctly at once that if i were to develop my views to that assembled group they would possibly be found of an offensive nature my impression being that your family are in the impertinent and in detail said mrs shaking her head no have never understood them and they have never understood you mr they have never understood you said his wife they may be incapable of it if so that is their misfortune i can pity their misfortune i am extremely sorry my dear said mr to have been betrayed into any expressions that might even have the appearance of being strong expressions all i would say is that i can go abroad without your family coming forward to favor me � in short with a parting of their cold shoulders and that upon the whole i would rather leave england with such as i possess than derive any of it from that quarter at the same time my dear if they should condescend to reply to your communications � which our joint experience renders most improbable � far be it from me to be a barrier to your wishes the matter being thus settled mr gave mrs his arm and glancing at the heap of books and papers tying before on the table said they would leave us to ourselves which they did my dear said leaning back in his chair when they were gone and looking at me with an affection that made his eyes red and his hair all kinds of shapes i don t make any excuse for troubling you with business because i know you are deeply interested in it and it may divert your thoughts my dear boy i hope you are not worn out i am quite myself said i after a pause we have more cause to think of my aunt than of any one you know how much she has done surely surely answered who can forget it of david but even that is not all said i during the last fortnight some new trouble has vexed her and she has been in and out of london every day several times she has gone out early and been absent until evening last night with this journey before her it was almost midnight before she came home you know what her consideration for others is she will not tell me what has happened to distress her my aunt very pale and with deep lines in her face sat immovable until i had finished when some stray tears found their way to her cheeks and she put her hand on mine it s nothing trot it s nothing there will be no more of it you shall know by and by now my dear let us attend to these affairs i must do mr the justice to say began that although he would appear not to have worked to any good account for himself he is a most man when he works for other people i never saw such a fellow if he always goes on in the same way he must be about two hundred years old at present the heat into which he has been continually putting himself and the distracted and impetuous manner in which be has been day and night among papers and books to say nothing of the immense number of letters he has written me between this house and mr s and often across the table when he has been sitting opposite and might much more easily have spoken is quite extraordinary letters cried my aunt i believe he dreams in letters there s mr dick too said has been doing wonders as soon as he was released from overlooking whom he kept in such charge as i never saw exceeded he began to devote himself to mr and really his anxiety to be of use in the we have been making and his real usefulness in and and and carrying have been quite to us dick is a very remarkable man exclaimed my aunt and i always said he was trot you know it i am happy to say miss pursued at once with great delicacy and with great that in your absence mr has considerably improved of the that had fastened upon him for so long a time and of the dreadful apprehensions under which he had lived he is hardly the same person at times even his power of his memory and attention on particular points of business has recovered itself very much and he has been able to assist us in making some things clear that we should have found very difficult indeed if not hopeless without him but what i have to do is to come to results which are short enough not to gossip on all the hopeful circumstances i have observed or i shall never have done his natural manner and agreeable simplicity made it transparent that he said this to put us in good heart and to enable to hear her father mentioned with greater confidence but it was not the less pleasant for that now let me see said looking among the papers 