for which i scorned him and as soon as he had found a cover to out heads he left us alone which was the greater service of the two chapter xxiv full story of a of the place found was in the upper part of a house backed on a canal we had two rooms the second entering from the first each had a chimney built out into the floor in the dutch manner and being alongside each had the same prospect from the window of the top of a tree below us in a little court of a piece of the canal and of houses in the architecture and a church spire upon the further side a full set of bells hung in that spire and made delightful music and when there was any sun at all it shone direct in our two chambers from a tavern hard by we had good meals sent in the first night we were both pretty weary and she extremely so there was little talk between us and i packed her oflf to her bed as soon as she had eaten the first thing in the morning i wrote word to to have her sent on together with a line to at his chiefs and had the same despatched and her breakfast ready ere i her i was a little abashed when she came forth in her one habit and the mud of the way upon her stockings by what inquiries i had made it seemed a good few days must pass before her could come to hand in and it was plainly needful she must have a shift of things full story of a copy of she was unwilling at first that i should go to that expense but i reminded her she was now a rich man s sister and must appear in the part and we had not got to the second merchant s before she was entirely charmed into the spirit of the thing and her eyes shining it pleased me to see her so innocent and thorough in this pleasure what was more extraordinary was the passion into which i fell on it myself being never satisfied that i had bought her enough or fine enough and never weary of beholding her in different indeed i began to understand some little of miss grant s in that interest of clothes for the truth is when you have the ground of a beautiful person to adorn the whole business becomes the dutch i should say were extraordinary cheap and fine but i would be ashamed to set down what i paid for stockings to her altogether i spent so great a sum upon this as i may call it that i was ashamed for a great while to spend more and by way of a set off i left our chambers pretty bare if we had beds if was a little and i had light to see her by we were richly enough lodged for me by the end of this i was glad to leave her at the door with all our purchases and go for a long walk alone in which to read myself a lecture here had i taken under my roof and as good as to my bosom a yoimg extremely beautiful and whose innocence was her peril my talk with the old and the lies to which i was constrained had already given me a sense of how my conduct must appear to others and now after the strong admiration i had just experienced and the with which i had continued my vain purchases i began to think of it myself as very i me if i had a sister indeed whether i would so expose her then judging the case too i varied my question into this whether i would so trust in the hands of any other christian being the answer to which made my face to bum the more cause since i had been and had the girl into an undue situation that i should behave in it with scrupulous she depended on me wholly for her bread and shelter in case i should alarm her she had no retreat besides i was her host and her protector and the more i had fallen in these positions the less excuse for me if i should profit by the same to forward even the most honest suit for with the opportunities that i enjoyed and which no wise parent would have suffered for a moment even the most honest suit would be unfair i saw i must be extremely in my relations and yet not too much so neither for if i had no right to appear at all in the character of a i must yet appear continually and if possible agreeably in that of host it was plain i should require a great deal of tact and conduct perhaps more than my years afforded but i had rushed in where angels might have feared to tread and there was no way out of that position save by right while i was in it i made a set of rules for my guidance prayed for strength to be enabled to observe them and as a more human aid to the same end purchased a study book in law full story of a copy of this being all that i could think of i relaxed from these grave considerations whereupon my mind at once into an of pleasing spirits and it was like one treading on air that i turned homeward as i thought that name of home and recalled the image of that figure awaiting me between four walls my heart beat upon my bosom my troubles began with my return she ran to greet me with an obvious and affecting pleasure she was clad besides entirely in the new clothes that i had bought for her looked in them beyond 