as ugly as she was rich without any fear of losing me i d her name as often as she liked i m afraid you are tom repeated tom who is not ask my sister have you so proved it to be a failing of mine tom said showing no other sense of his discontent and ill nature you know whether the fits you loo returned her brother if it does you can wear it tom is to day as all bored people are now and then said mr don t believe him mrs he knows much better i shall disclose some of his opinions of you privately expressed to me unless he a little at all events mn said tom in his admiration of his patron but shaking his head sullenly too you can t tell her that i ever praised her for being i may have praised her for being the contrary and i should do it again if i had as good reason however never mind this now it s not very interesting to you and i am sick of the subject they walked on to the house where quitted her visitor s arm and went in he stood looking after her as she ascended the steps and passed into the shadow of the door then put his hand upon her brother s shoulder again and invited him a confidential nod to a walk in the garden tom my fine fellow i want to have a word with you they had stopped among a disorder of roses � it was part of mr s humility to keep s roses on a reduced scale � and tom sat down on a terrace and picking them to pieces while his powerful stood over him with a foot upon the and his figure easily resting on the arm supported by that knee they were just visible firom her window perhaps she saw them tom what s the hard times oh mr said tom with a groan i am hard up and out of my life my good fellow so am i you returned tom you are the picture of independence mr i am in a horrible mess you have no idea what a state i have got myself what a state my sister might have got me out of if she would only have done it he took to biting the rose now and tearing them away from his teeth with a hand that trembled like an old man s after one exceedingly observant look at him his companion into his air tom you are you expect too much of your sister you have had money of her you dog you know you have well mr i know i have how else was i to get it here s old always that at my age he lived upon two pence a month or something of that sort here s my father drawing what he calls a line and tying me down to it from a baby neck and heels here s my mother who never has any thing of her own except her complaints what is a fellow to do for money and where am i to look for it if not to my sister he was almost crying and scattered the about by mr took him by the coat but my dear tom if your sister has not got it � not got it mr i don t say she has got it i may have wanted more than she was likely to have got but then she ought to get it she could get it it s of no use pretending to make a secret of matters now after what i have told you already you know she didn t marry old for her own sake or for his sake but for my sake then why doesn t she get what i want out of him for my sake she is not obliged to say what she is going to do with it she is sharp enough ould to it out of him if she chose then why doesn t she choose when i tell her of what consequence it is but no there she fits in his company like a stone instead of making herself agreeable and getting it easily i don t know what you may call this but call it unnatural conduct there was a piece of ornamental water below the on the other side into which mr james had a v strong to pitch di s as hard times the men of threatened to pitch their property into the atlantic but he preserved his easy attitude and nothing more solid went over the stone than the accumulated rose now floating about a little surface island my dear tom said let me try to be your banker for god s sake replied tom suddenly don t talk about i and white he looked in contrast with the roses very white mr as a thoroughly well bred man accustomed to the best society was not to be surprised � he could as soon have been affected � but he raised his eyelids a little more as if they were by a feeble touch of wonder it was as much against the of his school to wonder as it was against the doctrines of the college what is the present need tom three figures out with them say what they are mr returned tom now actually crying and his tears were better than his injuries however pitiful a figure he made it s too late the money is of no use to me at present i should have had it before to be of use to me but i am very much obliged to you you re a true friend a true friend i i thought mr lazily what an ass you are i and i take your as a great kindness said tom grasping his hand 