than shirt making and your plain sewing is so beautiful said that i think i shall beg a few specimens of you to show as work your exquisite sewing is quite a mystery to me � you used to dislike that sort of work so much in old days it is a mystery easily explained dear said looking up quietly plain sewing was the only thing i could get money by so i was obliged to try and do it well good and simple as she was could not help blushing a little she did not quite like that should know that � need not have mentioned it perhaps there was some pride in the confession the pride of poverty that will not be ashamed of itself but if had been the queen of she could hardly have invented a means of giving greater to her beauty in s eyes i am not sure that the quiet admission of plain sewing and poverty would have done alone but assisted by the beauty they made more unlike other women even than she had seemed at first but i can knit went on if that will be of any use for your oh yes of infinite use i shall set you to work with scarlet wool to morrow but your sister is the most ok the person continued turning to to have the talent of she is doing a wondering bust of dr entirely from memory why if she can remember to put the eyes very near together and the comers of the mouth very r apart the likeness can hardly fail to be striking in st s now that is very wicked of you said looking rather hurt i didn t think you would speak of dr i say anything of dr heaven forbid but i am not bound to respect a bust of him i think one of the finest fellows in the world i care much about the tall he has put on the table and i shouldn t like to spoil my temper by getting up to early prayers every morning but he s the only man i ever knew personally who seems to me to have anything of the real in him � a man who has eight hundred a year and is contented with deal furniture and boiled beef because he gives away two thirds of his income that was a very fine thing of him � taking into his house that poor lad who shot his mother by accident he sacrifices more time than a less busy man could spare to save the poor fellow from getting into a morbid state of mind about it he takes the lad out with him constantly i see that is beautiful said who had let her work fall and was listening with keen interest i never knew any one who did such things and one that sort of action in all the more said because his in general are rather cold and severe there s nothing and about him oh i think he s a perfect character i said with pretty enthusiasm no there i can t agree with you said shaking his head with sarcastic gravity now what fault can you point out in him he s an well those are the right views i think said gravely that settles the in the abstract said but not fi om a point of view he has set the and the church people by the ears and a rising like myself of whose services the country is very much in need will find it inconvenient when he puts up for the honor of representing st s in parliament do you really think of that said her eyes bright the mill on the with a proud pleasure that made her neglect the interests of decidedly � whenever old mr s public spirit and induce him to give way my father s heart is set on it and gifts like mine you know � here drew himself up and rubbed his large white hands ever his hair with playful self admiration � like mine involve great don t you think so miss � � yes said smiling but not looking up so much and self possession should not be wasted entirely on private occasions ah i see how much penetration you have said you have discovered that am and impudent now superficial people never discern that � owing to my manner i suppose she doesn t look at me when i talk of myself he thought while his listeners were laughing i must try other did intend to be present at the meeting of the book club next week was the next question then followed the recommendation to choose s life of unless she were inclined to be philosophical and the ladies of st s by for one of the of course wished to know what these learned books were and as it is always pleasant to improve the minds of ladies by talking to them at ease on subjects of which they know nothing became quite brilliant in an account of s which he had just been reading he was rewarded by seeing let her work fall and gradually get so a in his wonderful story she sat looking at him leaning forward with crossed arms and with an entire absence of self consciousness as if he had been the of old professors and she a he was so by this clear large gaze that at last he forgot to look away from it occasionally towards but she child was only rejoicing that was proving to how clever he was and that they would certainly be ood friends after all i will you the book shall i miss said when he found the stream of recollections running rather shallow there are many illustrations in it that you will like to see oh thank you said blushing with returning consciousness at 