much too here is my dwelling master we entered a low old fashioned room walked straight into from the street and found there mrs who was the dead image of only short she received me with the utmost humility and to me for giving her son a kiss observing that lowly as they were they had their natural affections which they hoped would give no offence to any one it was a perfectly decent room half parlor and half kitchen but not at all a snug room the tea things were set upon the table and the kettle was boiling on the there was a chest of drawers with an top for to read or write at of an evening there was s blue bag lying down and papers there was a company of s books commanded by mr there was a corner cupboard and there were the usual articles of furniture i don t remember that any individual object had a bare pinched spare look but i do remember that the whole place had it was perhaps a part of mrs s humility that she still wore weeds notwithstanding the lapse of time that had occurred since mr s she still wore weeds i think there was some compromise in the cap but otherwise she was as as in the early days of her mourning this is a day to be remembered my i am sure said mrs making the tea when master pays us a visit i said you d think so mother said if i could have wished father to remain among us for any reason said mrs it would have been that he might have known his company this afternoon i felt embarrassed by these compliments but i was sensible too of being entertained as an honored guest and i thought mrs an agreeable woman my said mrs has looked forward to this sir a long while he had his fears that our stood in the way and i joined in them myself we are we have been we shall ever be said mrs i am sure you have no occasion to be so ma am i said unless you uke the personal history and experience thank you sir retorted mrs heap we know our station and are thankful in it i found that mrs heap gradually got nearer to me and that gradually got opposite to me and that they respectfully plied me with the of the on the table there was nothing particularly choice there to be sure but i took the will for the deed and felt that they were very attentive presently they began to talk about and then i told them about mine and about fathers and mothers and then i told them about mine and then mrs began to talk about fathers in law and then i began to tell her about but stopped because my aunt had advised me to observe a silence on that subject a tender young cork however would have had no more chance against a pair of or a tender young tooth against a pair of or a little against two than i had against and mrs they did just what they liked with me and things out of me that i had no desire to tell with a certainty i blush to think of the more especially as in my frankness i took some credit to myself for being so confidential and felt that i was quite the patron of my two respectful they were very fond of one another that was certain i take it that had its effect upon me as a touch of nature but the skill with which the one followed up whatever the other said was a touch of art which i was still less proof against when there was nothing more to be got out of me about myself for on the and life and on my journey i was dumb they began about mr and threw the ball to mrs mrs caught it and threw it back to kept it up a little while then sent it back to mrs and so they went on tossing it about until i had no idea who had got it and was quite bewildered the ball itself was always changing too now it was mr now now the excellence of mr now my admiration of now the extent of mr s business and resources now our domestic life after dinner now the wine that took the reason why he took it and the pity that it was he took so much now one thing now another then everything at once and all the time without appearing to speak very often or to do anything but sometimes encourage them a little for fear they should be overcome by their humility and the honor of my company i found myself perpetually letting out something or other that i had no business to let out and seeing the effect of it in the twinkling of s nostrils i had begun to be a little uncomfortable and to wish myself well out of the visit when a figure coming down the street passed the door � it stood open to air the room which was warm the weather being close for the time of year � came back again looked in and walked in exclaiming loudly is it possible it was mr it was mr with his eye glass and his walking stick and his shirt collar and his genteel air and the roll in his voice all complete my dear said mr putting out his hand this is indeed a meeting which is calculated to impress the mind with a sense of the and uncertainty of all human � in short it is a most extraordinary meeting walking along the street reflecting upon the probability of something turning up of which i am at present rather ill h op david sanguine i find 