first said my aunt if he had been your own boy you would have put him to it just the same i suppose if he had been my brother s own boy returned miss striking in his character i trust would have been altogether different or if the poor child his mother had been alive he would still have gone into the respectable business would he said my aunt i believe said mr mm with an inclination of his head that would have disputed nothing which myself and my sister jane were agreed was for the best miss confirmed this with an audible murmur said my aunt unfortunate baby mr dick who had been rattling his money all this time was rattling it so loudly now that my aunt felt it necessary to check him with a look before saying the poor child s died with her died with her replied mr and there was no settlement of the little property � the house and garden � the what s its name without any in it � upon her boy it had been left to her by her first husband mr began when my aunt caught him up with the greatest and impatience good lord man there s no occasion to say that left to her i think i see david looking forward to any condition of any sort or kind though it stared him point blank in the face of course it was left to her but when she again � when she took that most disastrous step of marrying you in of david said my aunt to be plain � did no one put in a word for the boy at that time my late wife loved her second husband madam said mr and trusted in him your late wife sir was a most most unhappy most unfortunate baby returned my aunt shaking her head at him that s what she was and now what have you got to say next merely this miss he returned i am here to take david back � to take him back to dispose of him as i think proper and to deal with him as i think right i am not here to make any promise or give any pledge to anybody you may possibly have some idea miss of him in his running away and in his complaints to you your manner which i must say does not seem intended to me to think it possible now i must caution you that if you him once you him for good and all if you step in between him and me now you must step in miss for ever i cannot trifle or be with i am here for the first and last time to take him away is he ready to go if he is not � and you tell me he is not on any pretence it is indifferent to me what � my doors are shut against him henceforth and s i take it for are open to him to this address my aunt had listened with the attention sitting perfectly upright with her hands folded on one knee and looking grimly on the speaker when he had finished she turned her eyes so as to command miss without otherwise disturbing her attitude and said well ma am have you got anything to remark indeed miss said miss all that i could say has been so well said by my brother and all that i know to be the fact has been so plainly stated by him that i have nothing to add except my thanks for your politeness for your very great politeness i am sure said miss with an irony which no more affected my aunt than it the cannon i had slept by at and what does the boy say said my aunt are you ready to go david i answered no and entreated her not to let me go i said that neither mr nor miss had ever liked me or had ever been kind to me that they had made my who always loved me dearly unhappy about me and that i knew it well and that knew it i said that i had been more miserable than i thought anybody could believe who only knew how young i was and i begged and prayed my aunt � i forget in what terms now but i remember that they affected me very much then � to and protect me for my father s sake mr dick said my aunt what shall i do with this child mr dick considered hesitated brightened and rejoined have liim measured for a suit of clothes directly mr dick said my aunt triumphantly give me your hand for your common sense is invaluable having shaken it with great cordiality she pulled me towards her and said to mr you can go when you like i take my chance with the boy if he s all you say he is at least i can do as much for him then as you have done but i don t believe a word of it the personal history and experience miss rejoined mr his shoulders as he rose if you were a gentleman stuff and nonsense said my aunt don t talk to me how exquisitely polite exclaimed miss rising overpowering really do you think i don t know said my aunt turning a deaf ear to the sister and continuing to address the brother and to shake her head at him with infinite expression what kind of life you must have led that poor unhappy baby do you think i don t know what a day it was for the soft little creature when you first came in her way � and making great eyes at her i be bound as if you couldn t say to a goose i never heard anything so elegant said miss do you think 