associations to the altar of our domestic life if on the eve of such a departure you will accompany our mutual friend mr thomas to our present abode and there the wishes natural to the occasion you will confer a boon on one who is ever yours i was glad to find that mr had got rid of his dust and ashes and that something really had turned up at last learning from that the invitation referred to the evening then wearing away i expressed my readiness to do honour to it and we went off together to the lodging which mr occupied as mr and which was situated near the top of the gray s inn road the resources of this lodging were so limited that we found the now some eight or nine years old in a turn up in the family sitting room where mr had prepared in a wash hand stand what he called a of the agreeable for which he was famous i had the pleasure on this occasion of the acquaintance of master whom i found a promising boy of about twelve or thirteen very subject to that restlessness of limb which is not an phenomenon in youths of his age i also became once more known to his sister miss in whom as mr told us her mother renewed her youth like the my dear said mr yourself and mr find us on the brink of and will excuse any ts to that position glancing round as i made a suitable reply i observed that th� david family effects were already packed and that the amount of luggage was by no means overwhelming i congratulated mrs ou the approaching change my dear mr said mrs of your friendly interest in all our affairs i am well assured my family may consider it if they please but i am a wife and mother and i never will desert mr appealed to by mrs s eye that said mrs that at least is my view my dear mr and mr of the obligation which i took upon myself when repeated the words i take thee i read the service o � er with a flat candle on the previous night and the conclusion i derived from it was that never could desert mr and said mrs though it is possible i may be mistaken in my view of the ceremony i never will my dear said mr a little i am not conscious that you are expected to do anything of the sort i am aware my dear mr pursued mrs that i am now about to cast my lot among strangers and i am also aware that the various members of my family to whom mr has written in the most gentlemanly terms announcing that fact have not taken the least notice of mr s communication indeed i may be superstitious said mrs but it appears to me that mr is destined never to receive any answers whatever to the great majority of the communications he writes i may from the silence of my family that they object to the resolution i have taken but i should not allow myself to be from the path of duty mr even by my papa and were they still living i expressed my opinion that this was going in right direction it may be a sacrifice said mrs to one s in a cathedral town but surely mr if it is a sacrifice in me it is much more a sacrifice in a man of mr s abilities oh you are going to a cathedral town said i david mr had been helping us all out of the stand replied to in fact my dear i have entered into arrangements by virtue of which i stand pledged and contracted to our friend to assist and serve him in the capacity of � and to be � his confidential clerk i stared at mr who greatly enjoyed my surprise i am bound to state to you he said with an official air that the business habits and the prudent suggestions of mrs have in a great measure to this result the to which mrs referred upon a former occasion being thrown down in the form of an advertisement was taken up by my friend and led to a mutual recognition of my friend said mr � who is a man of remarkable i desire to speak with all possible respect my friend has not fixed the positive at too high a figure but he has made a great deal in the way of from the pressure of pecuniary difficulties on the value of my services and on the value of those services i pin my faith such address and intelligence as i chance to possess said mr himself with the old genteel air will be devoted to my friend s service i have already some acquaintance with the law � as a on civil process � and i shall immediately apply myself to the of one of the most eminent and remarkable of our english i believe it is unnecessary to add that i allude to mr justice these observations and indeed the greater part of the observations made that evening were interrupted by mrs s discovering that master was sitting on his boots or holding his head on with both arms as if he felt it loose or accidentally kicking under the table or shuffling his feet over one another or thorn at distances from himself a outrageous to nature o� lying sideways with his hair among the wine glasses or developing lis restlessness of limb in some other form with the general interests of society and by master s those discoveries in a i sat the while amazed by mr s e and wondering what it meant until david resumed the thread of the discourse and claimed my attention what i particularly request mr to be 