i can feel gratitude and i assure you that i feel it towards our mutual friend many s the day and many s the in which he has backed me staff and nonsense said mr arthur could not but glance at daniel in the silence though it was evidently in the grain of his character and of his respect for his own case that he should from idle murmuring evident that hie had grown the older the and the poorer long he could not but think what a blessed thing it would been for this man if he had taken a lesson from the gentlemen who were so kind as to take the nation s affairs in charge and had learnt how not to do it was hot and for about five minutes and te b an to cool and clear up come come said he we shall not make this the better by l grim where do you think of going dan i shall go back to the said dan why then we ll all go back to the factory or walk in that direction returned cheerfully mr won t be by its being in bleeding heart yard bleeding heart yard said i want to go there much the better cried mr come along as they went along certainly one of the party and probably more than one thought that bleeding heart yard was no destination for a man who had been in official correspondence and the � and perhaps had a also that might come to look for lodgings in bleeding heart yard some ugly day or other if she over did the chapter xi let loose a dull autumn night was closing in upon the river ine like a looking glass in a gloomy place tne clouds heavily and the low banks leaned over there as if t f y half curious and half afraid to sec their darkening pictures j the water the flat expanse of country about lay a long y streak occasionally made a little ragged by a row of against the sunset on the banks of the river it et and the night deepened fast i ue man slowly moving on towards was the only visible m the landscape might have looked as lonely and avoided an old at his back and a rough stick ut of some wood in his hand his shoes and p en out his hair and beard the cloak he carried over � shoulder and the clothes he wore with wet o in pain and difficulty he looked as if the clouds were iu from him as if the wail of the wind and the shuddering of the grass were directed against him as if the low mysterious of the water murmured at him as if the fitful night were disturbed by him ho glanced here and he there sullenly but and sometimes stopped and turned about and looked all round ham then he on again toiling and muttering to the devil with this plain that has no end to the devil with these stones that cut like knives to the il with this dismal darkness itself about one with a chill i you and he would have visited his hatred upon it all with the he threw about him if he could he a little further and looking into the distance before him stopped again i hungry thirsty weary you where the lights are yonder eating and drinking and warming yourselves at fires i wish i had the of your town i would repay you my children but the teeth he set ut the town and the he shook at the town brought the to i n no nearer and the man was yet and and when his feet were on its jagged pavement and he stood looking about him there was the hotel with its and its smell of cooking there was the with its bright windows and its rattling of there was the s with its of red cloth on the there was the s with its ear rings and its for there was the tobacco dealer s with its lively group of soldier customers coming out pipe in mouth there were the bad of the town und the rain and refuse in tlie and the faint lamps across the road and the huge diligence and its mountain of luggage and its six grey their tails tied up getting under weigh at the coach office but no small for a traveller being within sight he liad to seek one round the dark comer where the lay trodden about the public m at which liad not yet let off drawing water there in the back street he found one the break of da the windows clouded tlie break of day but it seemed light and warm and it announced in with ai of l cue and hall that at the break of day one could play that there one could find meat drink and lodging whether one came on horseback or came on foot and that it kept good and brandy the man turned the handle of the break of day door and in he touched his hat as he came in at the door to a few men who the room two were playing at one of the little tables three or four were seated round the stove conversing as they smoked the table in the centre was left alone for tlie time the of the sat her little counter ng her cloudy l of ba of and leaden for working at her his way to an empty table in a comer of the room behind the stove he put do ti liis s and his cloak upon the as h raised his head from stooping to do so he found tlie landlady beside one can lo here to night little perfectly said the landlady in a high voice good one can � sup � 