his innumerable horse power worked away not what any body said and presently turned out young thomas a foot taller than when his father had last taken particular notice of him thomas is becoming said mr almost a young man time passed thomas on in the mill while his father was thinking about it and there he stood in a long tail coat and a stiff really said mr the period has arrived when thomas ought to go to time sticking to him passed him on into s bank him an of s house the chase of his first and exercised him diligently in his calculations relative to number one the same great always with an immense variety of work on hand in every stage of development passed onward in his mill and worked her up into a very pretty article indeed i fear said mr that your continuance at the school any longer would be useless i am afraid it would sir answered with a courtesy i can not disguise from you said mr knitting his brow that the result of your there has hard times disappointed me has greatly disappointed me you have not acquired under mr and mrs m any thing hke that amount of exact which i looked for you are extremely deficient in your facts your acquaintance with figures is very limited you are altogether backward and below the mark i am sorry sir she returned but i know it is quite true yet i have tried hard sir yes said mr yes i believe you have tried hard i have observed you and i can find no fault in that respect thank you sir i have thought sometimes very timid here that perhaps i tried to learn too much and that if i had asked to be allowed to try a httle less i might have � no no said mr shaking his head in his and most eminently practical way no the course you pursued you pursued according to the system � the system � and there is no more to be said about it i can only suppose that the circumstances of your early life were too to the development of your reasoning powers and that we began too late still as i have said already i am disappointed i wish i could have made a better acknowledgment sir of your kindness to a poor forlorn girl who had no claim upon you and of your protection of her don t shed tears said mr don t shed tears i don t complain of you you are an affectionate earnest good young woman and � and we must make that do thank you sir very much said with a grateful courtesy you are useful to mrs and in a generally way you are serviceable in the family also so i understand from miss and indeed so i have observed myself i therefore hope said mr that you can make yourself happy in those relations i should have nothing to wish sir if � i understand you said mr you still refer to your father i have heard from miss that you still preserve that bottle well if your training in the science of arriving at exact results had been more successful you would have been wiser on these points i will say no more hard times he really liked too well to have a t far her otherwise he held her calculating powers in such very slight estimation that he must have upon that conclusion some i how or other he had become possessed by an idea that there was i in this girl which could hardly be set forth in a form her capacity of definition might be easily stated at a low figure her knowledge at nothing yet he was not sure that if he had been required for example to her off into columns in a return he would have quite known how to divide her in some stages of his manufacture of the human the processes of time are very rapid young thomas and being both at such a stage of their working up these changes were effected in a year or two while mr himself seemed stationary in his course and no alteration except one which was apart from his necessary progress the mill time him into a httle noisy and rather dirty machinery in a by comer and made him member of parliament for one of the respected members for and measures one of the representatives of the table one of the deaf honorable gentlemen dumb honorable gentlemen blind honorable gentlemen lame honorable gentlemen dead honorable gentlemen to every other consideration else wherefore we in a christian land eighteen hundred and odd years after our master all this while had been passing on quiet and reserved and so much given to watching the bright ashes at twilight as they fell into the grate and became extinct that from the period when her father had said she was almost a young woman � which seemed but yesterday � she had scarcely attracted his notice again when he found her quite a young woman a young woman said mr musing � dear me i soon after this discovery he became more thoughtful than usual for several days and seemed much engrossed by one subject on a certain night when he was going out and came to bid him good by before his as he was not to be home until late and she would not see him again until the morning � he held in his aims looking at in ua hard times my dear you are a woman she answered with the old quick searching look of the night when she was found at the then cast down her eyes yes father my dear said mr i speak with you alone and seriously come to me in my room after breakfast to morrow will you yes father 